vishnu wrote: And your main usage of that enterprise-class storage is for photos of the wife and kids, right?![]()
When I got the DS4300 it had no disks, so I only had the controllers to mess with. I quickly figured out that they run vxWorks. I deal with vxWorks professionally more or less on a daily basis so that got my full attention. Now I have all the optional licensed features like flash copy, volume copy, FC/SATA mix etc etc.

Up until this moment this thing was nothing but yet another way to waste my free time. I got it in exchange for a charity donation so it didn't cost me much. Then I figured out this thing actually works with IRIX clients, unlike some other SAN hardware. It's an Engenio unit, also rebadged as the SGI TP9300. So I bought some disks for it. At some point I found a cheap EXP710 (extra disk tray). If I run into a cheap EXP810 I'll pick that up too -- it supports SATA disks, and if I hack the carrier firmware to accept generic SATA disks I can offload all my old 1TB disks into it.
And it's used to store funny cat pictures, what else?

Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet
It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
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(2x)
In the museum : almost every MIPS/IRIX system.
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It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
Currently in commercial service:



In the museum : almost every MIPS/IRIX system.
Wanted : GM1 board for Professional Series GT graphics (030-0076-003, 030-0076-004)