On Saturday 06 May 2006 20:21, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
On Saturday 06 May 2006 07:10 pm, Roy J. Tellason
wrote:
- Power aupplies and drive assemblies for
"IBM 7133 HD Rack Assy" and
also the racks, if there's any interest. I believe there is some large
number of these, but I haven't had the chance to count things up yet.
Followup on those -- I took one and opened up the enclosure. There is a
hard drive in there, but it has a connector that bears no resemblance to
anything that I've ever seen before. The 96-pin (?) connector that the
unit plugs into the rack with is also unfamiliar to me. Unless there's
some way I can interface this to some more standard hardware here I suspect
that they're going to be of very little use to me, and yield very little
in the way of useful hardware. :-(
Anybody know what these things are?
It's an IBM SSA disk enclosure - SSA was IBM's pre-fiberchannel
"fiberchannel." Potentially useful to people with RS/6000s, AS/400s, or some
S/390 gear that uses them.
These shouldn't be confused with Sun's SSA, which was also a pre-fiberchannel
fiber attached storage, but which was otherwise completely different...
Pat
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