25 Aug
2020
25 Aug
'20
1 p.m.
On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 19:46, John Klos via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Wow, I'm surprised the VLC could generate enough traffic to wear out
an SSD - compared to a modern box running heavy compiles and suchlike.
Very cool box :)
Thinking about SCSI devices for my collection of older boxes - I
wonder if rascsi set to use the pi's RAM rather than an SD card to
provide a swap device would work out.
Actually, could be interesting to run a modern *nix box with the right
type of scsi adapter in target mode and have it "export" devices and
or ramdrives to older boxes...
David
I was going to comment that the only way I could
see a 1U VAX was if
someone rack mounted a 4000/VLC. Is that the stock VLC power supply?
My cluster doesn?t even have that much space.
What do you use to go from SATA to SCSI (SCSI-1 even)?
It's a standard 1U power supply with a custom adapter. You can see it
better here:
https://twitter.com/AnachronistJohn/status/1294725819038752768
I use a SATA to IDE adapter, then an IDE to UW-SCSI adapter, then an
UW-SCSI cable and terminator, then finally a 68 to 50 pin adapter.
The previous drive was a Samsung SSD, but I think that constant, non-stop
swap use wore it out. This was the smallest new spinning rust drive I
could find.
SCSI2SD would work for a while, but, again, swap usage would wear out an
SD card in no time, I'm sure.