CDC Sabre information - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

7 Dec 2000

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  On Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:03:20 -0500  Douglas Quebbeman 
 &lt;dhquebbeman(a)theestopinalgroup.com&gt; wrote:
  Grrr... Thanks, John, I forgot how I had that
page set up, and
 the link I got from the properties was for the thumbnail,
 not for the image for which it was a link. The full-sized
 picture is indeed at:

          http://members.iglou.com/dougq/p2455/ICS&Cipher.jpg

 This is an FSD 500 (?), and predates Seagate's purchase of
 CDC's drive division.  
 Oh, weird, I have exactly the same Cifer front-loading tape 
 drive in my living room, next to a CDC FSD 500 disk drive.  
 My FSD 500 has a blue front panel, though.  It's an SMD 
 interface drive, but I have no source for jumper 
 information and I need to change the sector size to suit a 
 Sun host. 
Yes, the Cipher F880 Microstreamer is a Pertec-interface
device. Some of them support 6250bpi, like the Pr1me version
shown in my photo, while I have a DEC TS05 version that has
only the 1600/3200 densitys.

Be advised that my Prime cables must be put on backwards
(i.e. the triangle on the connector does NOT go to pin 1/2).
YMMV, etc.

-dq