15 Mar
2006
15 Mar
'06
7:39 p.m.
Well hey, whaddya know. I have a VAX with a DSSI
interface :-). I
was wondering if the picture was showing the DSSI style sled on it.
My DSSI slots are full, but I gather the TKZ70 tape drive isn't very
useful... maybe I could put another drive in that bay? If you have one of the VAX 4000
BA4xx series machines, it's very easy - just slide out the tape drive and slide in the
disk drive. Fully documented in the BA400 docs on either Manx or bitsavers, can't
remember which. DEC used to sell a spacer plate to take up the extra 3/4", but you
should be able to get by without it. Smaller MicroVAXen are different, haven't seen
one personally so I can't comment.
Does anyone know what the DEC number is for
the DSSI-configured drive sled for BA4x0 (as used on ISEs? Trying to find one, but I
can't give a specific model # which makes it difficult)
Question 2: has anyone tried Moeller's ROM patch for KA41-43 to support >1.03 GB
system drives? Looks good, but as I'd have to bribe someone with access to an EPROM
burner to do it for me I want to check it out first
please respond on-list, my E-mail seems to have started diverting incoming messages
direct to the bit-bucket.