7 Jul
2005
7 Jul
'05
10:15 p.m.
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 22:46 +0100, Dan Williams wrote:
We had some external harddrives for the 380Z server we
had at the
school I went to. They where in the same case as a 380Z but they where
white (same cream colour as the newer 480Z) and the reset button was
just a power light. Inside was 2 ST225N's with 2 xebec boards. I'm not
sure if this was an original spec though. The drives could of been
upgraded, they where the same as they used in the Nimbus.
Hmm, now that's interesting. My 380Z fileserver has the same black case
to it for the hard disk as the normal 380Z. As with the ones you
remember, there's no reset button, just a power light, and there's a
Xebec board inside.
Can't recall what drive mine has inside, but it's a full-height unit so
definitely not a '225.
I suppose it makes more sense for them to be white/cream rather than
black, given that they were supposed to be used with the cream 480Z
systems - in which case maybe my black one's something of the odd one
out!
One day I'll bump into an ex-RML employee who has all the definite
answers to everything (I hope :)
I don't *think* the fileservers were meant to be used with a network of
380Z machines - but that's only going by the fact that I've never seen a
380Z with a network interface in it, except for my fileserver
controller. Maybe they did exist as a standard network shipped by RML
and that's why my fileserver unit is black...
(mine was certainly used with 480Z's though as I got both fileserver and
480Z machines in the same pile from a school)
At least that's confirmation that the cream/white machines did actually
exist though!
cheers
Jules