11 Mar
2010
11 Mar
'10
1:23 a.m.
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, e.stiebler wrote:
Zane H. Healy wrote:
The "usual" suspects like cmd, dilog, emulex ?
OK, in all honesty I didn't check for more than a year, but they showed up
before, that's why I canceled my design ...
Okay, old 3rd party disk controllers. The problem with these is that they
also require old hard drives. I'm also slightly surprised to hear mention
of CMD controllers that aren't expensive, but then I've not looked for such
things in years.
My PDP-11's are using 1" High 3.5" SCSI Hard Drives, it does wonders for
the
noise level, and helps with the power consumption, but I'm honestly a bit
worried about their long term viability. At least I have a much larger
supply of SCSI drives I can use than I do MFM Hard Drives (and yes, I have a
few of those, and a couple ESDI drives).
Of course the other thing I worry about is power supplies. In fact that's
what I've been loosing VMS boxes to. :-(
Zane
OTOH,
they old ones show up on ebay frequently, and they are not that
expensive.
What "old ones" show up on eBay?