26 Mar
2024
26 Mar
'24
2:08 p.m.
On 3/26/2024 9:15 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
Don't know, but doubt it. Some of the disks have probably been used
for other purposes since the VAXen went away more than 20 years ago.
On Mar 26, 2024, at 8:57 AM, Bill Gunshannon via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 3/25/2024 9:51 PM, Henry Bent wrote:
Do you have just part of the RAID set, or enough disks to make a complete one? On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 at 20:14, Bill Gunshannon via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org <mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
Oops. I guess the fingers work as good as the memory. Sorry
about that. I've got about 20 of them. I know they haven't
been used since they were taken out of the VAX Cluster I ran
at the University. Nothing I have used the SB boxes with since
then would know what to do with 9GB of disk space. :-)
But, if needed I could probably test them on a PC I have with
an Adaptec SCSI in it. It's intended for Ersatz-11 but I expect
does could use a disk that big. Too bad there's no way to read
them. Might be some interesting stuff left behind by the VAX.
Why is there no way to read them? If you have a PC with a SCSI card you can easily boot
into the Linux or BSD distro of your choice and make a dd (or ddrescue) image of the
entire drive, which could then be accessed by whatever means.
These disks were part of a really large RAID array in a SAN connected to
the VAX cluster. There is no way of reconstructing it and so no way to
extract usable information.
bill If the latter then it's a matter of reverse
engineering the RAID layout,
which is likely to be doable.
While possible, I think hardly likely. I don't even remember what the
appliance was. Something DECish.
bill