On 3/26/11 3:04 PM, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
So, in a recent pile-o-stuff, I acquired this SCSI
box. The box
itself is a generic two bay SCSI enclosure, but inside is mounted
some kind of bus interface devices. It's a single circuit board, on a
frame that mounts in a half height 5 1/4" bay. The face has a little
two line LCD, and some buttons and lights. The board itself is made
by CMD. Seems to be model CSB-2200/SDS.
The board has what appears to be a SCSI input, and two SCSI outputs.
The board contains three NCR 53C90B SCSI chips. Powering the device
up, it announces itself as SCEA/S on the LCD.
Now, from fiddling with the thing, and looking at what it contains,
it *appears* to be some sort of SCSI-SCSI bridge, communicating with
two separate busses, and allowing one external bus to use them. But I
don't know. Searching on the model number have failed to turn up a
manual. Searches for SCEA/S invariably turns up articles about
various lawsuits that Sony Computer Entertainment of America have
filed against their customers for using devices they purchased in
ways that Sony doesn't like.
So. Any ideas? I took some pictures:
http://i.imgur.com/o9X6s.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/TzV67.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/SQN0b.jpg
I concur with the other folks who suggested that this may be a
SCSI<->SCSI RAID controller. The eight LEDs on the front panel that
look like activity indicators, the "FAULT" LED, the presence of an NVRAM
chip (for configuration storage), and a user interface, all support this
conclusion. And being SCSI<->SCSI, there's really not much else it
could be.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL