On Oct 22, 2013, at 10:12 AM, Michael-John Turner wrote:
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 04:48:02AM +0100, Liam Proven
wrote:
I bought a 3100 model 38 some years ago, with
monitor, mouse, keyboard
etc., for the princely sum of ?0.99 -- about US$1.60 -- but sadly, the
vendor kept the hard disk *and the mounting bracket and cables*. To
replace them, the cheapest price I've found was about ?70... & my
budget is minute.
I haven't opened my 3100 in some years, but wouldn't a regular 50-pin SCSI
cable and drive get you up and running? If so, I'm sure I can find both in
my parts bin and send them to you.
Earlier 3100s have a 1.0something limit on the size of the boot
drive because the firmware only issues the older, shorter SCSI
commands which can only address that many blocks. You can use
any size you'd like for the drives used once it's booted, since
the OS usually has no such problem (it's not a problem with the
SCSI controller itself).
Can anyone confirm that the 3100/80 does not have that problem?
My recollection is that it's essentially a reboxed version of
the 4000/60, which does not (none of the 4000s do, IIRC). I'll
try it out sometime soon regardless, but it would be nice to
have an idea before I dive in.
- Dave