Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 09:52:09 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Cc: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FFS questions Message-ID: <199808280952.JAA05560@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "28 Aug 1998 12:42:40 %2B0200." <xzpbtp5jskf.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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> Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> writes: > > Thanks, but I've already proven my manhood by lugging an RA81 (in a 4" > > cabinet) upstairs myself; I don't need to do it again. Actually, come > > to think of it, aren't surviving storage options for those systems > > getting a bit thin on the ground? > > Hmmm... is that the 600 MB 8.5 ms average seek disk they sold with the > MicroVAX? They were the high-end disk for the Vax range for a while, yes. I don't think they were that fast though (try more like 30-40ms). The Fujitsu Super Eagle was another popular storage solution in that size range, and there were some smaller (515MB, lighter) CDC disks as well. > Some friends of mine recently acquired a 16 year old > MicroVAX in working order (except for one disk with a dead PSU) with > two RA81 disks. They (four people) had to remove the disks to even be > able to lift the MicroVAX (using straps) and IIRC none of them could > carry a disk by himself either. I guess Norwegians just aren't as bloodyminded as Australians then. 8) Carrying a microvax is pretty straightforward, unless you've left it in the cabinet at which point it becomes kinda unwieldy. There were 9 of them in a house I was sharing a while back, so I did get to move a few around... > The problem they face now is cooling. Even with one disk out the heat > this thing generates is unbearable (we're talking high-eighties- > low-nineties room temperature) Just like the server room where the FreeBSD cluster lives. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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