[Info-vax] Eisner? Down? (10 days later)

[Richard B. Gilbert]

johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com wrote:
> On Jan 4, 6:20 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> This sounds vaguely familiar.  Were the Mylex controllers, by any
>> chance, once known as "SWXCR"?
> 
> Yep. That's the one.  Finicky and a PITA as mentioned by others, but
> about the only game in town for hardware RAID.  I've got a them
> installed in AlphaSever 1200's and 800's but I haven't had them
> running in about a year.

I didn't find the SWXCR to be all that difficult.  I picked up two or 
three of them on e-Bay.  They were dirt cheap.  I downloaded some 
utility software, installed the hardware and I was in business!

AIRC I installed one in an Alphaserver 2000 and one in an Alphaserver 
4100. I think I had one set up for RAID-5 and the other for RAID-1.

The directions for installation/setup were clear enough.  Once 
installed, they worked.  I don't think they are still running; the 
company was acquired, I was laid off, and I understand that the new 
owners used Novell for everything!  It was fun while it lasted!