On Sunday 07 May 2006 20:25, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 5/7/2006 at 7:18 PM Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Actually I think you might have said something to
that effect in an
email to me but I don't think you said anything in here.
The list never got the email. Ah, well, at least I had the serial
part right.
Did this message not make it to the list?
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Subject: Re: stuff!
Date: Saturday 06 May 2006 20:59
From: Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
On Saturday 06 May 2006 20:21, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
On Saturday 06 May 2006 07:10 pm, Roy J. Tellason
wrote:
- Power aupplies and drive assemblies for
"IBM 7133 HD Rack Assy"
and also the racks, if there's any interest. I believe there is
some large number of these, but I haven't had the chance to count
things up yet.
Followup on those -- I took one and opened up the enclosure. There
is a hard drive in there, but it has a connector that bears no
resemblance to anything that I've ever seen before. The 96-pin (?)
connector that the unit plugs into the rack with is also unfamiliar
to me. Unless there's some way I can interface this to some more
standard hardware here I suspect that they're going to be of very
little use to me, and yield very little in the way of useful
hardware. :-(
Anybody know what these things are?
It's an IBM SSA disk enclosure - SSA was IBM's pre-fiberchannel
"fiberchannel." Potentially useful to people with RS/6000s, AS/400s,
or some S/390 gear that uses them.
These shouldn't be confused with Sun's SSA, which was also a
pre-fiberchannel fiber attached storage, but which was otherwise
completely different...
Pat
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