2 Feb
2007
2 Feb
'07
1:32 p.m.
Billy Pettit wrote:
Guy Sotomayor write:
Not too bad. I was lucky and all of mine worked. Just print out the
manual and make sure everything's configured correctly. I have the
8-drive versions. I put the CDC drives on a separate controller because
apparently there's "issues" with mixing Eagles and CDC drives on the
same chain.
TTFN - Guy
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Hmmm. I supported the Eagles for the 8 years I was at Fujitsu. Don't
remember anything about issues mixing with CDC on the same cables. Come to
that, I was at MPI before Fujitsu and don't remember any problems with
mixing there either. Of course, the Eagle simply ran forever. I visited a
couple that hadn't been powered down in 5 years - just running along quietly
in the background.
I'm just going by what's in the Emulex docs. The issues were more like
"make sure the CDC's are at the end of the string of drives. But the
primary motivation was because I only have ID plugs 0 & 1 for the CDCs.
They are nice drives...but *very* heavy at 140# (I'm sure glad I have an
equipment lift to get stuff in racks).
So, I'm not surprised to see some Eagles still
running. To me, it was the
best disk drive ever made. Certainly the most reliable. I got to be good
friends with the designer, Yuji Inoue. He was an incredible engineer.
Sadly, he died about 3 years ago.
I've had a pretty good hit rate with the Eagles. Although I do have
some "dead" ones.
And I add my kudos for your beautiful restoration. It
is great to see such
a labor of love.
Thanks. It's fun and my favorite system right now.
--
TTFN - Guy