12 Feb
2002
12 Feb
'02
12:16 p.m.
Today I spotted what looked like programmer's panel. However upon
inspection it turns out that it's a control/test panel for some kind of
disk drive. I've seen several of these before so it must have been a MOL
standard device despite it's decidedly homemade appearance (bright finished
aluminium box about 15" cubed. A sticker inside said that it was made by
Magnetic Peripherals. Is anyone familar with these? What type drives coud
it operate? Is it worth picking up? This one appeared pretty intact, some
key tops were missing but it had the cables still stored inside of it.
Joe
12 Feb
12 Feb
12:37 p.m.
Magnetic Peripherals == CDC's rotating storage division.
Probably for 9760/62 SMD drives and their ilk, probably a
tester...
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Subject: "Programmer's Panel" for disk drives
Today I spotted what looked like programmer's panel. However upon
inspection it turns out that it's a control/test panel for some kind of
disk drive. I've seen several of these before so it must have been a MOL
standard device despite it's decidedly homemade appearance (bright finished
aluminium box about 15" cubed. A sticker inside said that it was made by
Magnetic Peripherals. Is anyone familar with these? What type drives coud
it operate? Is it worth picking up? This one appeared pretty intact, some
key tops were missing but it had the cables still stored inside of it.
Joe
1:26 p.m.
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22 Feb
22 Feb
2:48 a.m.
Tony,
sorry to take so long to reply. You're right, there is both a 60 pin and
a 2 something pin cable with it. Does anyone still do anything with SMD
drives?
Joe
At 12:26 AM 2/13/02 +0000, you wrote:
aluminium box
about 15" cubed. A sticker inside said that it was made by
Magnetic Peripherals. Is anyone familar with these? What type drives coud
IIRC, Magnetic Peripherals is CDC...
it operate? Is it worth picking up? This one
appeared pretty intact, some
key tops were missing but it had the cables still stored inside of it.
Can you describe these cables? CDC to me implies an SMD interface (at
least on their larger drives). If the cables are a 60 pin control cable
and maybe a 26 pin data cable, I'd guess that's what it is.
-tony
4:49 a.m.
On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 08:48:27AM -0500, Joe wrote:
sorry to take so long to reply. You're right,
there is both a 60 pin and
a 2 something pin cable with it. Does anyone still do anything with SMD
drives?
Yes! SMD - MSCP adapters for QBus VAXen are reletive easy to get.
Many Sun 3 machines have SMD adapters, The Sequent S27 I playd
with had SMD, ... SMD is a quite common intrface for "lager"
machines in the age of 10 to 15 years.
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
5:01 a.m.
New subject: SMDI drive on RH70 (was Re: "Programmer's Panel" for disk drives)
I was wondering if anyone knows whether or not the more modern SMDI disks
can be used on an RH70 controller (or not).
--tom
7:53 a.m.
I gave a suitcase-sized SMD tester/exerciser to Will Jennings a couple of
years back. Some of the older systems some of the fellows use probably use
SMD's, though I don't know how familiar these user are with the details. I
think some knowledge of the interface protocol is required in order to perform
tests without destroying either the drive or the contents.
BTW, I do believe I gave Will the one copy of the SMD spec, from CDC, that I
had. Perhaps he can help those who need the data.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe" <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 6:48 AM
Subject: Re: "Programmer's Panel" for disk drives
Tony,
sorry to take so long to reply. You're right, there is both a 60 pin and
a 2 something pin cable with it. Does anyone still do anything with SMD
drives?
Joe
At 12:26 AM 2/13/02 +0000, you wrote:
>> aluminium box about 15" cubed. A sticker inside said that it was made by
>> Magnetic Peripherals. Is anyone familar with these? What type drives coud
>
>IIRC, Magnetic Peripherals is CDC...
>
>> it operate? Is it worth picking up? This one appeared pretty intact,
some
key tops were missing but it had the cables still
stored inside of it.
Can you describe these cables? CDC to me implies an SMD interface (at
least on their larger drives). If the cables are a 60 pin control cable
and maybe a 26 pin data cable, I'd guess that's what it is.
-tony
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