28 Jun
2000
28 Jun
'00
10:36 p.m.
Jay> Sorry, should clarify things. My concern is the bus and Jay> throughput. Do I need a PCI based sparc to support this kind of Jay> throughput, and what would be reccomended, or could an SBUS based Jay> system handle this (i.e. Sparc 2,5,20)?
It's not a bus issue, it's more of a CPU issue. You'll really want an Ultra with 300Mhz or faster CPU to drive this well. I'd suggest a dual CPU U2 with 300 or 400 Mhz CPUs, 512Mb of RAM. One F/W diff SCSI controller for per two tape drives.
John John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies stoffel@lucent.com - http://www.lucent.com - 978-952-7548 john.stoffel@ascend.com - http://www.ascend.com