On Saturday 06 May 2006 08:59 pm, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Saturday 06 May 2006 20:21, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
On Saturday 06 May 2006 07:10 pm, Roy J. Tellason
wrote:
- Power aupplies and drive assemblies for
"IBM 7133 HD Rack Assy" and
also the racks, if there's any interest. I believe there is some
large number of these, but I haven't had the chance to count things up
yet.
Followup on those -- I took one and opened up the enclosure. There is a
hard drive in there, but it has a connector that bears no resemblance to
anything that I've ever seen before. The 96-pin (?) connector that the
unit plugs into the rack with is also unfamiliar to me. Unless there's
some way I can interface this to some more standard hardware here I
suspect that they're going to be of very little use to me, and yield
very little in the way of useful hardware. :-(
Anybody know what these things are?
It's an IBM SSA disk enclosure - SSA was IBM's pre-fiberchannel
"fiberchannel." Potentially useful to people with RS/6000s, AS/400s, or
some S/390 gear that uses them.
Well, I'm glad that somebody knows what they are, and if anybody wants some
of this stuff feel free to contact me offlist...
These shouldn't be confused with Sun's SSA,
which was also a
pre-fiberchannel fiber attached storage, but which was otherwise completely
different...
Pat
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