HA: A3500 vs. FC/AL, has Sun's web-page slipped?

[Fredrik Lundholm]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 10:54:35AM +0900, Art Freeman wrote:
> Are there any documents which contain detailed information about the
> products mentioned (and the A1000)
> It would be useful to know how the firmware works.   Thanks.


Is it just me, or has the Sun webpages slipped through the ground?

I cannot locate technical whitepapers of A3500 (esp the FC_AL implemnetation),
the Fast write cache stuff (is it just a befeed up presto?), 
also  I can't find any decent info on the PCI host based RAID-card for 
the E450's, no  whitepaper on the Ultra 80 workstation..
(no microprocessor announcement during the whole 1999)

What the F*&K is WRONG @ SUN?
I'm looking into a 'measly' 1TB investment in the near future, but 
I cannot locate any relevant info at all from Sun's webpages or sunsolve.
The best I could dig up was a crappy performance tuning guide for A3000!

F. ex can the fast write cache be used with regular FC-AL disks? 
(its only breifly mentioned along with the A5X00 stuff..)

This kind of non-information about major product really puts me off,
anyone has a good source of info for OEM or 3:rd party solutions that
work well in a FC_AL/Sun (E3500) environment??

Is it just me? Or is there a magic way of getting all relevant information?

It's really a shame that www.sun.com etc. doesn't contain the information 
I regard neccesary. Maybe I'll have to nag at my Sun representative??

/wfr Fredrik



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