I should probably search the archive, but has anyone experience with RA90's?
I got one recently and when I powered it up (after a thorough cleaning)
it faulted with E9.
I have (thankfully) several manuals for this device and it seems to
indicate the solenoid which "pulls the pin" on what looks like the voice
coil head motion thing may be sticking. "head motion thing" - that's a
techinical term.
(ok, if you must know, I bought it on ebay, but for 2 orders of
magnitude less than the truck full of pdp's :-)
I've decided that I like RA90's better than RA81's :-) mostly because I
can lift them :-)
The drive spins up and I can run the diagnostics. The simple tests work.
any thoughts?
-brad
Hi.
I have a MTI Stingray SCSI HSC. I.e. a 3 U 19" rack mount box that has a
VAX CI (4 x Coax) interface on one side and a (HVD) SCSI interface on
the other side. It appears on the CI as single cluster node with several
attached disks, like a real DEC HSC.
Together with the HSC come four SCSI drive canisters. Each of it can hold
at least two SCSI disks. The SCSI drive canisters also contain some
electronic to convert the 8 bit single ended SCSI bus of the disks to the
8 bit HVD SCSI bus of the Stingray HSC.
There is also rack mount stuff for the drive canisters. So you can get a
complete CI HSC with 7 SCSI disks in 9 U 19" rack space.
I have a MTI CIQBA Qbus to CI adapter also. Yes, a Qbus to CI adapter.
It needs special (VMS) drivers that you can get from MTI.
There are no disks in the canisters. I had to leave the disks at the
company where I got this machinery. There where some Seagate and
Micropolis disks in the range from 2 to 4 GB in the canisters.
I suspect that 7 x 4 GB is sufficient for a small home VAX cluster. ;-)
Unfortunately I don't have any cables, so I can't test this. All I did
was to plug in a MMJ cable to the console of the Stingray SCSI HSC and
play with its firmware.
I would like to trade SCSI HSC + drive canisters + CIQBA for some other
nifty equipment, preferably DEC, but I am interrested in any *ix stuff.
(Even if it is younger then 10 years. Special Interrest: SGI Octane CPU
mudule > 300 MHz R12k or Vpro GFX or HP9000 Cxxxx. ;-) )
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
Hey gang. My mate and I are going to be in Detroit over the weekend of
April 24-25 and I was wondering if any of you know of any technological
(or just interesting) events or locations we should visit while we're
there. We have some flexibility in arriving a few days early and/or
staying a few days late, so anywhere around that weekend would be fine.
Sorry folks I ment it for Al Kossow.
Dwight
>From: "Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey(a)amd.com>
>
>Hi Al
> I'm going to need to dump some 2708's soon. Do
>you think I can get the manuals back on Monday?
>Dwight
>
>
>
I have a couple of Tricord Powerframe 30 computers that are destined for scrap.
These are huge i486 boxes with all proprietary components. If anyone wants
any parts of these, let me know and I'll remove and ship the parts.
Martin Marshall
Hi all !
Yesterday, I got the hand on a Fujitsu drive model 2443 (rack version). The drive seems to be in a good shape.
The only problem is, that the front door with the control panel is missing, I figured it out with the help of the manual on Al's site (thanks once again, Al !!).
Unfortunately, the manual doesn't contain schematics of the drive, so that I could rebuild a control panel, as it just has several light indicators and some switches.
Does anybody have schematics for the control panel of this beast or a panel he would like to sell or get rid off ?
Any help is appreciated
Pierre
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I found one of these today. Is anyone familar with them? This one is a 16
bit ISA card and I can't find anything about this model on the net. Does
anyone know if it's compatible with the current wireless LAN cards?
Joe
Does anyone know of any computer related meaning for the name/acronym
SSMEC? I've found some Honeywell H316 parts that are marked 'for program
SSMEC'. I've found one definition of SSMEC but the meanng seems to be a
little too fantastic.
Joe
