16 Jan
2007
16 Jan
'07
6:20 p.m.
On 16/1/07 09:49, "Adrian Burgess" <classiccmp at discordance.org.uk>
wrote:
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 01:12:11AM -0000, arcarlini at
iee.org wrote:
VAXstations have an external 68-way male connector as standard, the OP's
machine has had this retrofitted (badly?) with an HD50 instead. If I had
easy access to my M78 I could try swapping the internal cable with something
that terminates in a 'standard'* SCSI-1 centronics** connector since I'm
pretty sure they both terminate in headers on the motherboard, but something
is nagging at me that the thinner VAXstations (similar to an Infoserver150)
had the external connector on the main internal bus wiring?
*yeah I know, plenty to choose from etc :)
**I know it's not its real name, I can't remember what it really is.....
--
Adrian/Witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer
collection?
The wiring inside the VAXstation 3100-76 may well be "non-standard",
but the external connector works perfectly well with any SCSI
cable which physically connects.
I'm a bit confused. I've got an M76 which I'd love to install a later
version of VMS on (it's currently on 5.5), but everything I've read has said
that the external SCSI connector is DEC-specific and needs a DEC BC09J cable
to attach normal SCSI devices to (a cable which I've not yet found at a
reasonable price). Is this not the case?