Disk technology: SMD or IPI?

[Alain St-Denis]

We are currently looking at replacements for our SMD drives. Anybody in
the net would like to convince me why I should buy IPI drives instead of
SMD? This would be for 4D/240S machines.

We've been having problems with our SMD drives almost since day one. I
don't know if there is a shitty IRIX driver for it or what, but it has
been a major pain...  Has anybody out there had trouble with SMD drives?
If yes, were you able to fix it? How?

If you could also tell me where I could find litterature to sort these
things out a little better (SMD and IPI).

Please E-mail.
Thanks in advance.

Alain St-Denis
Centre informatique de Dorval
Environnement Canada
astdenis at cid.aes.doe.CA
(514) 421-4697