27 Mar
2011
27 Mar
'11
8:20 a.m.
On Sunday 27 March 2011 07:35:30 am Geoffrey Reed wrote:
On 3/26/11 11:04 AM, "Mr Ian Primus" <ian_primus at yahoo.com> wrote:
It's an interesting-looking gadget, to be sure. What I'd do is connect it to a
linux box and see what the system saw...
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
So, in a recent pile-o-stuff, I acquired this
SCSI box. The box itself is a
generic two bay SCSI enclosure, but inside is mounted some kind of bus
interface devices. It's a single circuit board, on a frame that mounts in a
half height 5 1/4" bay. The face has a little two line LCD, and some buttons
and lights. The board itself is made by CMD. Seems to be model CSB-2200/SDS.
The board has what appears to be a SCSI input, and two SCSI outputs. The board
contains three NCR 53C90B SCSI chips. Powering the device up, it announces
itself as SCEA/S on the LCD.
It looks familiar. I've usually come across them in 9 bay chassis, with a
SCSI in and 8 devices (0-7) in the chassis, I'm pretty sure that it is a
Raid controller that presents a single drive on the main SCSI channel.