10 Apr
2002
10 Apr
'02
1:44 a.m.
On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Ethan Dicks wrote:
The arrangement was this...
Some sort of host board -> SI9900 -> one or more SMD drives.
You could plug multiple hosts into one SI9900, but we never did. You
could plug multiple disk boards into it, too, and we did do that, IIRC.
Cool. I think I have 2 host boards, the drive drawer, and no SI9900.
Oh, well. In all honesty, my network & storage setup is such that
remote filesystems are very satisfactory for most of my slower machines.
Obviously, the SI9900 works with the PDP-11/70, but I
have no experience
with it. I do not know what device the Qbus board resembles. If you
don't have the 9900 itself, that card isn't going to do you much good.
Heh. Not to mention that I don't see SMD drives all that often
either. Maybe I'll stick the SI boards on eBay as "Totally Cool,
Ultr@R@re Mystery QBus Adapters".....
Thanks to all for the information.
Doc