[rescue] San Antonio, TX area rescue

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:59:11PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:

> >Gig of ram, I'm not surprised at.  Size of a fridge seems a bit odd.
> >Obviously, a disk controller for this isn't going to be the size of a
> >PCI card or anything, but a lunch box or moderate sized Sun (say U80)
> >sized controller seems more reasonable for a 1999 vintage machine.  How
> >in the world do they reasonably fill a fridge?
> 
>   Well I've found very little information about it, but keep in mind 
> that these boxes can connect to dozens of processors and hundreds of 
> disk drives.  No lunchbox-sized device is going to control tens of 
> terabytes of disk with automated, online backup to connected tape 
> libraries and all that shit.  Also I believe the RVA cabinet does have 
> some space for drives as well.
> 
>   Here's one...no in-depth tech info though. :-(
> 
>   http://www.system.missouri.edu/itss/ss/RVA_DASD.html

Impressive, with somewhat of a retro look.  Most of the info is somewhat
meaningless to me though.

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Joshua D. Boyd