14 Jul
2005
14 Jul
'05
11:38 a.m.
I need a SCSI card for my Sun 3/180. Is there anyone that can help me?
I've got a few $$ I could spend towards it, but I'm not willing to pay
insane amounts of cash. ;)
Pat
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14 Jul
14 Jul
11:54 a.m.
Do you have a PN for the card? I have a SUN sitting behind me with what
looks like a SCSI/Ethernet card in it. The cover is missing so I don't know
what model the puter is but it's one of the pizza boxs. I'll pull the card
and get it's PN.
Joe
At 10:38 AM 7/14/05 -0500, you wrote:
I need a SCSI card for my Sun 3/180. Is there anyone
that can help me?
I've got a few $$ I could spend towards it, but I'm not willing to pay
insane amounts of cash. ;)
Pat
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12:19 p.m.
On Thursday 14 July 2005 10:54, Joe R. wrote:
Do you have a PN for the card? I have a SUN sitting
behind me with
what looks like a SCSI/Ethernet card in it. The cover is missing so I
don't know what model the puter is but it's one of the pizza boxs.
I'll pull the card and get it's PN.
The card I need is a VME card that fits in one of the big VME chassis;
that's most likely an SBUS card.
From what I can find, it looks like I need the SCSI
card that is a
"small" VME card in a frame that adapts it from
2-connector to
3-connector VME, and the actual card is part # 501-1236. The number on
the ouside of the system should be either 501-1170, or 501-1217, I
think.
Thanks,
Pat
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3:42 p.m.
Pat,
yes, this one has an S-bus card. I don't think I have any VME SCSI cards.
Joe
At 11:19 AM 7/14/05 -0500, you wrote:
On Thursday 14 July 2005 10:54, Joe R. wrote:
Do you have a PN for the card? I have a SUN
sitting behind me with
what looks like a SCSI/Ethernet card in it. The cover is missing so I
don't know what model the puter is but it's one of the pizza boxs.
I'll pull the card and get it's PN.
The card I need is a VME card that fits in one of the big VME chassis;
that's most likely an SBUS card.
From what I can find, it looks like I need the
SCSI card that is a
"small" VME card in a frame that adapts it from
2-connector to
3-connector VME, and the actual card is part # 501-1236. The number on
the ouside of the system should be either 501-1170, or 501-1217, I
think.
Thanks,
Pat
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12:42 p.m.
I need a SCSI card for my Sun 3/180. Is there anyone
that can help
me? I've got a few $$ I could spend towards it, but I'm not willing
to pay insane amounts of cash. ;)
Do you happen to know whether they're compatible with SCSI cards from
other VME-based Suns? I've got a -4/470 and the cards (but not the
chassis) from another -4/470, and two, I think, -3/260s. Surely in
there there's at least one SCSI card I can liberate, but I don't want
to send you a card only to find it doesn't work in your -3/180.
I'll check the 501- numbers when I get home to see if any of them match
the numbers you gave in your other message (501-1236, 501-1170,
501-1217).
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1:31 p.m.
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 12:42 -0400, der Mouse wrote:
I'm pretty sure the 4/470 has the SCSI controller integrated on the CPU
board, despite being VME. I have a feeling that some of the Sun3 line
are like this too - and then other Sun3's (like the 3/50, 3/60) weren't
ever designed to support a disk controller; they were simply diskless
workstations.
We're actually in the same position - I've got a feeling it's a 3/150
that we have which has a CPU card, extra memory card, but no disk
controller whatsoever. Lack of disk controller seems pretty common on
this class of Sun, yet if they were supposed to be faster diskless
workstations I'm not sure why Sun went to the expense of giving them a
VME backplane. Maybe they were aimed more at process control where
storage either wasn't needed or was expected to be remote?
cheers
Jules
I need a SCSI
card for my Sun 3/180. Is there anyone that can help
me? I've got a few $$ I could spend towards it, but I'm not willing
to pay insane amounts of cash. ;)
Do you happen to know whether they're compatible with SCSI cards from
other VME-based Suns? I've got a -4/470 and the cards (but not the
chassis) from another -4/470, and two, I think, -3/260s. Surely in
there there's at least one SCSI card I can liberate, but I don't want
to send you a card only to find it doesn't work in your -3/180.
2:21 p.m.
I need a SCSI card for my Sun 3/180.
Do you
happen to know whether they're compatible with SCSI cards
from other VME-based Suns? I've got a -4/470 and the cards (but not
the chassis) from another -4/470, and two, I think, -3/260s. Surely
in there there's at least one SCSI card I can liberate, I have a feeling that some of the Sun3 line are like
this too - and
then other Sun3's (like the 3/50, 3/60) weren't ever designed to
support a disk controller; they were simply diskless workstations.
I've never seen a -3/50 or -3/60 without a SCSI interface. Have you?
(It's the DD50F connector, and I think on that era of machine it's even
marked "SCSI".)
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2:45 p.m.
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, der Mouse wrote:
I'll second that. I borrowed a 3/60 from work for a while in the late
'80s, and it definitely has onboard SCSI. Same for the 3/50.
http://www.sun3zoo.de/en/sun360.html
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I have a
feeling that some of the Sun3 line are like this too - and
then other Sun3's (like the 3/50, 3/60) weren't ever designed to
support a disk controller; they were simply diskless workstations.
I've never seen a -3/50 or -3/60 without a SCSI interface. Have you?
(It's the DD50F connector, and I think on that era of machine it's even
marked "SCSI".)
3:10 p.m.
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 14:21 -0400, der Mouse wrote:
Yes, you're right - I'm going mad :-)
cheers
Jules
I have a
feeling that some of the Sun3 line are like this too - and
then other Sun3's (like the 3/50, 3/60) weren't ever designed to
support a disk controller; they were simply diskless workstations.
I've never seen a -3/50 or -3/60 without a SCSI interface. Have you?
(It's the DD50F connector, and I think on that era of machine it's even
marked "SCSI".)
3:29 p.m.
On Thursday 14 July 2005 11:42, der Mouse wrote:
According to Sun, they were used in VME 4/xxx models as well:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/Sun4/SCSI_Sun3_Host_Adptr.html
I need a SCSI
card for my Sun 3/180. Is there anyone that can help
me? I've got a few $$ I could spend towards it, but I'm not
willing to pay insane amounts of cash. ;)
Do you happen to know whether they're compatible with SCSI cards from
other VME-based Suns? I've got a -4/470 and the cards (but not the
chassis) from another -4/470, and two, I think, -3/260s. Surely in
there there's at least one SCSI card I can liberate, but I don't want
to send you a card only to find it doesn't work in your -3/180. I'll check the 501- numbers when I get home to see
if any of them
match the numbers you gave in your other message (501-1236, 501-1170,
501-1217).
Thanks.
Though, I'm a bit worried about time... I want it for a machine I'm
going to be exhibiting at VCF/Midwest and that's only 2 weeks away
now... shipping to/from Canada might take too long, and I don't have
that much to spend on getting this working.
Pat
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