[2570] in Release_7.7_team
Re: 9 GB Ultra-5's to be replaced with 20GB units.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed Jan 31 17:19:29 2001
Message-ID: <suS8xdJz00015o53kC@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 22:19:21 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Kathleen Moriarty <kathleen@MIT.EDU>, owls@MIT.EDU
CC: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <v04020a03b69e20c1a2ab@[18.70.0.239]>
Nobody ever answered my questions.
No system ever came in to test.
I got distracted.
This issue was lost.
No progress can be made until someone takes responsiblity for getting us
a system.
-wdc
---- Original Message ----
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:09:03 -0500
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
From: Kathleen Moriarty <kathleen@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: 9 GB Ultra-5's to be replaced with 20GB units.
Hello Bill,
I am writing to see if you have tested the Ultra 5's with 20 GB Hard disks.
It appears as though Sun has discontinued the product with 9 GB drives, and
I have a customer who wants to order a Sun Athena workstation.
Thanks, and let me know if you need add'l information from me.
Kathleen
>According to a Sun Product Intro I received on 17 November,
>
>Excerpts from mail: 17-Nov-100 SUN PRODUCT INTRO (Q1FY2001.. @Sun.Com (14142)
>
>> Sun is replacing the existing Ultra 5 configurations that have a 9-GB
>> internal hard drive and a 32x CD-ROM with new configurations that
>> include a 20-GB internal hard drive and a 48x CD-ROM.
>
>Excerpts from mail: 17-Nov-100 SUN PRODUCT INTRO (Q1FY2001.. @Sun.Com (14142)
>
>> FOR ALL SUN CUSTOMERS AND PARTNERS EXCEPT THOSE IN EUROPE: All current
>> Ultra 5 systems with 9-GB drives and 32x CD-ROM drives. will transition
>per the following schedule:
>> Last Order Date: January 12, 2001
>> Last Ship Date: April 13, 2001
>
>It would probably be a good idea for us to get either a system or a
>drive in-house and make sure the disk partitioning portion of the Athena
>install is prepared. If a machine shows up in W92, miki can do the
>partition work and ghudson can do the testing.
>
>Since the last order date is January 12, we have about 30 shopping days
>to certify the new configurations, and modify the saws-config.html page.
>
>QUESTIONS:
>
>Who will take responsibility for getting one of these new systems?
>Who will take responsibility for getting the saws-config page updated?
>
>-wdc
