A/UX 2.0 initial questions

[Thomas Lunde]

In article (<1859 at ns-mx.uiowa.edu> tlunde at umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu ) I wrote:

> 1)  Is it possible to use AUX with removable hard drives, particularly
> those with Syquest Mechanisms?
>
> 2)  What is the realistic ( not theoretical ) size in M of drive space 
> needed to effectivly use AUX?

To summarize the responses,

1)  Yes, if they are setup properly.  There was one recommendation to use
Silverlining to do this.

2)  80M seemed to be the reasonable minimum for everday use.  If disk intensive
use is to be done, >100M is necessary.

Thanks to those who responded.  The orignal (edited) responses follow.

Thomas Lunde

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>From blob at apple.com Mon Jul 16 09:23:52 1990
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 1990 07:25:48 PDT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.

In article <1859 at ns-mx.uiowa.edu> tlunde at umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Thomas 
Lunde) writes:
> 1)  Is it possible to use AUX with removable hard drives, particularly
> those with Syquest Mechanisms?

Yes, if you set up the Syquest properly.  Tony Cooper wrote a program that 
sets the appropriate SCSI sense state or whatever magic it was.  It's on 
sumex-aim.stanford.edu in the utils directory, I believe.

> 2)  What is the realistic ( not theoretical ) size in M of drive space 
> needed to effectivly use AUX?

Insufficient information given to answer this question.  This question is 
roughly equivalent to "what car should I drive?"  Specify "use A/UX" more 
fully, and I can tell you a better answer.  With that disclaimer, I find 
80Mb fine if you're doing routine stuff, but you'll be happier with more 
if you do program development.

You can get by on less than 80Mb if you're a masochist.

--Brian Bechtel     blob at apple.com     "My opinion, not Apple's"

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>From grebyn!rhodes at uu.psi.com Mon Jul 16 18:12:19 1990
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 90 19:02:59 EDT
Subject: Re: A/UX 2.0 initial questions
Organization: Software Systems Group, Arlington, VA

	Yes, you can use syquest mechanisms.  It appears that the best
formatter is the LaCie Silverlining.

	The unix system software requires 40 MB and I think they use
10-20 MB for swap and then there is the mac partition.  Bottom line is
that 80 MB is usable, but you wind up with only 10 MB of space to do
stuff in.  Obviously a 100 MB would give you 30 MB of user space and so
On.  I think you need > 100 to do serious work.

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