Bill Towe just noted:

> Recently Summit told us to configure all of our 9GB
> HASS/Jamaica drives as 4GB drives due to some
> problems on the HP3000 platform with fully utilized
> 9GB drives.  We were also told not to use the 9GB drives
> fully configured for use with Turbo IMAGE/iX.  We have
> also heard that in general use on the HP3000, the 9GB
> are slow and often crash.
>
> I was wondering if anyone else is experiencing anything
> such as this or is Summit out on vacation concerning this.

I don't know if they are out to lunch or not;  all I can say is
that the ten 9GB hot swap modules we have in our two HASS
enclosures as two mirror banks of five spindles each have
been running flawlessly for several months.  Have not noticed
any performance problems:  They "seem" (seat-of-the-pants
measure;  no hard stats) to be every bit as fast as our 4 GB
FW-SCSI drives in non-HASS enclosures....  Note all 10 of
our 9G drives are in a user volume;  and there are no other
spindles in that volume...

I am not aware (publicly or privately) of any info that says
using 9GB drives with TurboIMAGE could be a problem....
If there is any such valid info, I would certainly like to see it;
if not, I would like to see some recognized "authority"
squelch the rumor....

Ken Sletten