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From: "Greg Elkin" <ClassicComputers(a)bouncy-castle.demon.co.uk>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 6:40 AM
Subject: MicroVAX4000/505A drive sleds
Just acquired a VAX 4000/505A (thanks Paul!) with no
disks installed -
anyone got the details for adding a raw DSSI disk to one of these
things ; the chasis has a drive backplane at the top with 4 edge
connectors, into which a drive sled of some form slots in. I need to
knock up whatever is on the sleds, drive LEDs & switches. Unless
anyone has some excess sleds that I could liberate?..
Cant help with the sleds, but it is possible to run DSSI drives without the
ID plug, see
http://www.mcmanis.com/chuck/computers/vaxen/dssi-plug.html.
Short answer: logon to the console of the drives' embedded processor and
tell it it's new address! Can your peasea do that? ^_^
ta
greg
Bob