Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: dvorak@iam.unibe.ch (Jiri Dvorak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: SMD-4 vs. 753/754? Message-ID: <156:dvorak@iam.unibe.ch> Date: 29 Nov 88 07:13:39 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 16 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 15 Nov 88 8:41 +0100 X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 27, message 6 of 12 Recently, I tried to get an offer from our local Sun dealer for a 892 Disk with a xy753/7053. The answer I got was that Sun does not sell any 753/7053. Instead, he offered a just newly announced controller SMD-4, which should be twice as fast as a 451 and can handle 4 disks. But the SMD-4 can be installed only in SunOS 4.0 systems (he said). Two questions: - is 'SMD-4' just Sun's name for the 7053 or is it really different? - has anybody successfully installed a SMD-4 in a 3.5 server? (and if yes, how?) thanks, Jiri Dvorak dvorak@iam.unibe.ch or Institute for Informatics dvorak%iam.unibe.ch@relay.cs.net University of Berne UUCP: ..!uunet!mcvax!iam.unibe.ch!dvorak Switzerland