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

[Frederick Hall]

'Fredrik Lundholm' said ...
> From owner-ssa-managers@Eng.Auburn.EDU  Tue Jan 11 16:33:44 2000
> 
> 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??
> 
Have you tried http://docs.sun.com:80/ab2?

	Fred Hall