30 Apr
2001
30 Apr
'01
5:09 a.m.
I've never seen empty 5.25" SBB cases on eBay.
I'm hoping
to find some cases that people have pulled the guts out of
to use somewhere else or have had the drives fail.
OK, I think you've got a point there, it's rare enough that I see empty
3.5" ones up there. However, I think I have seen CD-ROM's in the SBB's
before. Just out of my price range, IIRC.
I've got a BA350, BA356, and RaidArray 310.
I'd like to get
another HSZ20 to use with the one in the RA310 for redundant
backup. Even better I'd like to get an HSZ40 (or two). I'm
using the RA310 in a SCSI cluster with two PWS500au systems
with a FWD card in each box.
I forget what the beasties I've got are called. Three shelves for disks,
and one shelf for the RAID Controllers. I'm pretty sure the controllers
are either HSZ40's or 50's. Then there are the 4 BA350's. I'm still
looking for at least one BA356.
Now how on earth are you getting a FWD card to work in PWS500au's, or maybe
I should ask which card? That's a KZPSA isn't it? I tried the KZPSA I
just got in my PWS433au, and it wouldn't boot, as it complained about an
unrecognized card.
I have a DLT4000 (the same as a TZ87). I'd like a
TZ88
or TZ89, but the DLT4000 works okay for now (and was
much cheaper than a TZ88).
I just got a DLT2000 (unfortuantly not quite the same thing as a TZ86), but
haven't tried it out yet.
At one point my primary server was an AlphaStation 500/333 with two BA350's
and a Exabyte Jukebox. I've trimmed that down to one BA350 to save power,
and the weekend before last I replaced the AlphaStation 500/333 with only
96MB of RAM with the AlphaStation 200 4/233 with 384MB of RAM (can't afford
RAM for the 500, but got the RAM in the 200 for free from a friend) so I
could run DECwindows on it, though I'll probably eventually swap it with
the PWS433au in the next few weeks.
Zane
--
| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |