18 Jan
2001
18 Jan
'01
1:48 a.m.
At 11:09 PM 1/17/01 -0700, Bill wrote:
Sounds about like a first generation DC-9 revving up
for roll out?
Yup.
I've had very good luck shutting up XT2190's
and RD54's simply by turning
them upside-down. In my particular set up (old pee cee cases) they also
run _much_ cooler. That might present mounting and cabling
complications in your situation. YMMV.
Actually this is a VAXStation 2000 so turning it upside isn't a problem
(nothing else cares about orientation) but alas it did not noticeably
change the whine.
I'm really torn by this little machine. On the one hand I sort of swore off
MFM drive based systems and was sticking to Q-bus based VAXen in the
collection, but now with the VS2000 I've got a bunch of the workstation
versions as well (KA41 - KA49). Fortunately for me the desktop VAXes take
up _much_ less room than the deskside variety, also the drive has Ultrix32
on it and its my only Ultrix based VAX (I've got Ultrix media for MIPS but
not for VAX). I'm guessing that if I moved the jumper back I'd see it has
some sort of frame buffer as well, perhaps it would bring up X even.
--Chuck
18 Jan
18 Jan
1:54 a.m.
Could you set it up to netboot and copy the disk over before it croaks?
If it was running VMS I'd suggest clustering it. I'm thinking the difference
in performance between having it netboot and run against an NFS disk vs
running against the mfm drive isn't going to be all that big.
I'm really torn by this little machine. On the one hand I sort of swore off
MFM drive based systems and was sticking to Q-bus based VAXen in the
collection, but now with the VS2000 I've got a bunch of the workstation
versions as well (KA41 - KA49). Fortunately for me the desktop VAXes take
up _much_ less room than the deskside variety, also the drive has Ultrix32
on it and its my only Ultrix based VAX (I've got Ultrix media for MIPS but
not for VAX). I'm guessing that if I moved the jumper back I'd see it has
some sort of frame buffer as well, perhaps it would bring up X even.
--Chuck
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Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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2:18 a.m.
At 12:54 AM 1/18/01 -0700, Jim wrote:
Could you set it up to netboot and copy the disk over
before it croaks?
If it was running VMS I'd suggest clustering it. I'm thinking the difference
in performance between having it netboot and run against an NFS disk vs
running against the mfm drive isn't going to be all that big.
Probably, except that I can't get my AUI transceiver connected to the D-15
connector and I don't have a thin-10BaseT adapter. If one of my TZ50's is
an -FA I can probably tar everything off to a TK50 cart and manually haul
it over. Alternatively I'm going to come up with some way to hook up the
transceiver.
--Chuck
3 a.m.
At 12:54 AM 1/18/01 -0700, Jim wrote:
I have both some skinny AUI/10bt things, and some coax to 10bt converters.
Email me directly if interested.
Could you set it up to netboot and copy the disk
over before it croaks?
If it was running VMS I'd suggest clustering it. I'm thinking the difference
in performance between having it netboot and run against an NFS disk vs
running against the mfm drive isn't going to be all that big.
Probably, except that I can't get my AUI transceiver connected to the D-15
connector and I don't have a thin-10BaseT adapter. If one of my TZ50's is
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