Sun external SMD cables

On 2/14/2020 4:17 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: Storage module device, Control data's drive interface. SMD external cables probably weren't that common.? The systems I saw which were of such as 4/280 etc, rack mounted had the cabling internal to the bays and were of the ribbon variety.? They used VME bus cards in a large size carrier for the controllers in the system frame.? The system frame had cards that were about 18" high with an extra bus connector.? But if you aligned the VME cars to fit two of them, there was apparently a vme bus. Those systems that i saw had either 68k processors, or early Sparc processors.? The sun boards used all three bus connectors and the other vendor boards as I sad were usually mounted in a sun dimensioned carrier frame. And reason for all this explanation was that they used a third part vendor's SMD interface. As to the connections to go outside the rack, all the systems I saw had 2 or so smd drives and were racked in a 6' bay with room for a tape drive at the top, system in the center, and drives @ the bottom, and so no need for external. I am speculating that the Alan's system may have the system in a low bay, and drives in a separate bay or bays.? I never saw any sun systems with other than 14" SMD drives, so there were no smaller drive boxes than ones that were full 19" rack sized. Liam, I suspect your cabling might have been for the older workstations, which had "bricks" or "cement block" sized boxes with full size 5 1/4" drives or in some cases 8" form factor drives. And of course, the interfaces that Alan needed was were different than your cabling. Add SMD to the list of terms like microprocessor and microprocessing to the list of mangled terms with two totally different meanings as well. Thanks Jim