9 May
2005
9 May
'05
8:54 a.m.
On Mon, 9 May 2005 00:51:46 EDT
Saquinn624 at aol.com wrote:
Picked up a VAX 4000/200 myself recently. Fairly nice
machine, heavy,
same processor type as a Vaxstation 4000-VLC. Each memory board is 16
MB, system can address up to 4. DSSI drives standard, probably also
has SCSI Qbus card (the connector at the far side of the chassis is
DSSI NOT SCSI). Rumor has it that there is some way to hack the SCSI
through to the backplane shelf in lieu of the DSSI.
If it is a BA400 enclosure you
can route SCSI to the right drive bay for
removable drives. There is the (IIRC) KZQSA SCSI adapter common on this
machines. This is a dump non-MSCP SCSI Adapter. It was intended as a
CDROM and tape only adapter. Not of much use without VMS.
the BA430 really needs two people to load (over
100lbs, I'm still
sore)
Remove the disk drives and the PSU before lifting. I doo this all the
time when I move my VAX 4000-400 in a BA440...
but the 215 is probably a one-person deal.
Yes.
I have a VAX 4000-200 in a BA215 and it is easy to lift for a
single person.
Does anyone here know if DSSI is worth the bother?
seems to be hard to
find, small and expensive but I have no experience with it.
DSSI is cool. It is a
smaler version of CI. DSSI disks appear as a
complete CI HSC with a single disk attached. You can use DSSI like CI to
cluster VAXen.
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Jochen
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