3 Nov
2013
3 Nov
'13
2:48 p.m.
The email below came up on the Rescue list.
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From: rescue-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-bounces at sunhelp.org] On
Behalf Of Ten Yen
Sent: 03 November 2013 22:38
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: [rescue] DEC kit available in London, UK, if your quick.
Heya,
so there is this stuff:
BA213 skunk box containing many cards
including a ?3500? and a II (don't power it up until you've configured the
system you want!) and a MicroVax 2000 client / server pair with a TK50.
safe in a basement. . .
and under a tarp since this evening (its raining hard ;/ but we needed to
compromise for a weeks grace) :
PMAX DECstations (3100 and 5100) and other random crap (3100 style storage
expansion boxes, LAT terminal servers etc. G3 mac)
till tuesday when it will be thrown out. you'd make some old hoarders happy
(and save a trip to the dump) if you can pick them up ASAP.
some photos:
http://tenyen.net/womble/
werd,
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3 Nov
3 Nov
11:21 p.m.
New subject: Looking for ESDI to SCSI adapter
Hi!
Someone told me that old SUN external HD boxes (3/xx) had an internal
ESDI to SCSI adapter.
I'm looking for such a beast: it would make the backup and imaging step
easier, since many old machine I own have ESDI (now rare) disks...
Thanks!
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4 Nov
4 Nov
8:54 a.m.
New subject: Looking for ESDI to SCSI adapter
Where are u located? I still have a few old Sun external hdd enclosures.
BTW, your Retrocomputer page below comes up with a whole host of errors after the pics
load, at the bottom of the page.
Cindy Croxton
Electronics Plus
1613 Water Street
Kerrville, TX 78028
(830)792-3400 phone (830)792-3404 fax
AOL IM elcpls
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Of supervinx
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 1:22 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Looking for ESDI to SCSI adapter
Hi!
Someone told me that old SUN external HD boxes (3/xx) had an internal ESDI to SCSI
adapter.
I'm looking for such a beast: it would make the backup and imaging step easier, since
many old machine I own have ESDI (now rare) disks...
Thanks!
--
Retromuseum:
http://www.supervinx.com/Retrocomputer
You can reach me at:
http://www.youtube.com/supervinx
http://www.myspace.com/supervinx
http://www.facebook.com/supervinx
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10:56 a.m.
New subject: Looking for ESDI to SCSI adapter
Il giorno lun, 04/11/2013 alle 10.54 -0600, Cindy Croxton Electronics
Plus ha scritto:
Where are u located? I still have a few old Sun
external hdd enclosures.
BTW, your Retrocomputer page below comes up with a whole host of errors after the pics
load, at the bottom of the page.
Cindy Croxton
Electronics Plus
1613 Water Street
Kerrville, TX 78028
(830)792-3400 phone (830)792-3404 fax
AOL IM elcpls
Overseas, Italy...
The errors should have been corrected now... thanks!
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9:36 a.m.
New subject: Looking for ESDI to SCSI adapter
On Mon, 4 Nov 2013, supervinx wrote:
Someone told me that old SUN external HD boxes (3/xx)
had an internal
ESDI to SCSI adapter.
I'm looking for such a beast: it would make the backup and imaging step
easier, since many old machine I own have ESDI (now rare) disks...
You can forget it unless you know exactly that your disks have the same
soft sector format as that used by the ESDI-SCSI bridges.
Christian
10:40 a.m.
New subject: Looking for ESDI to SCSI adapter
On 11/4/13 9:36 AM, Christian Corti wrote:
On Mon, 4 Nov 2013, supervinx wrote:
yup..
FWIW, Sun used Emulex MD21 bridges. Good luck finding out what ECC they used.
Someone told me that old SUN external HD boxes
(3/xx) had an internal
ESDI to SCSI adapter.
I'm looking for such a beast: it would make the backup and imaging step
easier, since many old machine I own have ESDI (now rare) disks...
You can forget it unless you know exactly that your disks have the same soft sector
format as that used by the ESDI-SCSI bridges.
Christian
11:09 a.m.
New subject: Looking for ESDI to SCSI adapter
On Nov 4, 2013, at 10:40 AM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
On 11/4/13 9:36 AM, Christian Corti wrote:
I had some of those (Emulex bridges) back in the day. I wish I still had them. :-(
TTFN - Guy
On Mon, 4 Nov 2013, supervinx wrote:
yup..
FWIW, Sun used Emulex MD21 bridges. Good luck finding out what ECC they used.
Someone told me that old SUN external HD boxes
(3/xx) had an internal
ESDI to SCSI adapter.
I'm looking for such a beast: it would make the backup and imaging step
easier, since many old machine I own have ESDI (now rare) disks...
You can forget it unless you know exactly that your disks have the same soft sector
format as that used by the ESDI-SCSI bridges.
Christian
11:25 a.m.
New subject: Looking for ESDI to SCSI adapter
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
FWIW, Sun used Emulex MD21 bridges. Good luck finding
out what ECC they
used.
I remember them from back in the day. While you might have some setup
and configuration issues with an MD21 and a random ESDI drive, didn't
these work pretty well if you used SunOS to low-level format them? (of
course, not everyone has an ancient Motorola-CPU Sun lying around and
working, but maybe a SPARC1 or SPARC2 and SunOS 4.x might do?)
-ethan
10:55 a.m.
New subject: Looking for ESDI to SCSI adapter
Il giorno lun, 04/11/2013 alle 18.36 +0100, Christian Corti ha scritto:
On Mon, 4 Nov 2013, supervinx wrote:
Yes, the same applies to MFM formatted disks...
But I can give it a try... if it works it works :)
Thanks!
--
Vincenzo (aka Supervinx)
--==ooOoo==--
My computer collection:
http://www.supervinx.com/Retrocomputer
--==ooOoo==--
You can reach me at:
www.supervinx.com
www.facebook.com/supervinx
http://www.youtube.com/user/supervinx
http://www.myspace.com/supervinx
Someone told me that old SUN external HD boxes
(3/xx) had an internal
ESDI to SCSI adapter.
I'm looking for such a beast: it would make the backup and imaging step
easier, since many old machine I own have ESDI (now rare) disks...
You can forget it unless you know exactly that your disks have the same
soft sector format as that used by the ESDI-SCSI bridges.
Christian
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