28 Oct
2003
28 Oct
'03
7:56 a.m.
David,
I pulled one of these out of the trash a while back
and finally got around to trying it this weekend. I
installed three disks but it seems unresponsive. Maybe
that's why it was in the trash - but before I give up
on it is there anything unusual about the SCSI
interface on these devices ? None of the disks
responded to a SCSI probe.
There is nothing special about this box. It is a
standard SCSI
(narrow, fast @ 10MHz) bus cabinet, with space for 2 Digital
SBB's (storage building blocks) at 3.5" and one slot for either
another SBB, or a 5.25" device SBB, like a CD drive or a tape.
SCSI ID's can be set on the back.
I have a few of those, loaded with RZ28's (mostly), and they
work fine. *DO* remember though, that it they have a narrow
bus, so you can only use -VA SBB's; the -VW might work, but
don't always seem to.
Cheers,
Fred
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