24 Jun
2003
24 Jun
'03
9:19 a.m.
Besides the actual L0009 card, I'm reading that
there appears
to be an external enclosure to house part of the CI750. My
750s were always a local-disk affairs (UDA50/SI9900/etc). I
have no experience with CI hardware and don't know what
advice to give him. Can anyone here describe what you need
to pull this all together (he already has an SC008 and cables).
You can find at least some of the necessary information by
poking around in Manx (http://vt100.net/manx) and searching for
750. I know I scanned some related VAX-11/780 material (like
maybe the CI780 docs) and that should show up.
The basic gist is that you have the appropriate CI interface
in the system (CI750 in your friend's case) and two cables (A & B)
to the SC008 (which is in essence a transformer coupler).
Do the same for other systems you wish to connect.
You almost certainly want some form of HSC (HSC50/60/70/90) connected
to the SC008 and hang disks off the HSC. You may be lucky enough to
find an HSJ, which IIRC will connect to the SC008 and you can hook
SCSI disks to it, which reduces some of the hassles of finding and
maintaining SDI drives. (Of course, if you are trying to get a
750 running, you may well like these hassles!).
You can hook some Alpha boxes to the SC008 too. The CIPCA is a
PCI CI adapter. There is also (again IIRC) an EISA CI board.
Antonio
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