Sweet.. New toy.. - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

23 Dec 2004

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, David Holland wrote:

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  On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 23:46 +0000, Antonio Carlini
wrote:

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>
> It was possible to arrange for SCSI to be in the box using
> a KZQSA, but that was only used to drive CDROM and tape -
> disks were not oficially supported. 
...
  It does have true scsi on it at least..  You say disks
were "Not
 officially supported".. I don't suppose they'd work still though? 
Read: No driver under VMS or NetBSD, and the design was very low-cost with
lots of corners cut. Apparently it'll barely tolerate a single drive
attached to it.

...
  (I've a number of varying size SCSI drives in
external shoe boxes that
 are easy enough to move around, and plug in.  DSSI drives, well....
 Unsurprisingly, I don't have any of those, should the below 3 turn out
 to be boat anchors.) 
I'm willing to bet that ALL of your DSSI disks are fine. If you require
more storage, go and get a HSD05 and a Storageworks shelf to put it in.
eBah has them quite regularly. A Storageworks shelf is a rackmountable
SCSI drawer system, holds 8 modules. At least one of those would be a PSU,
the rest can be disks or tapes. A HSD05 is a DSSI <-> SCSI converter that
appears on the DSSI bus as an attached server with multiple RF7x disks.

I run two DSSI VAXen off one DSSI bus sharing a HSD05. Easiest and
cheapest way to get NetBSD on a 4000/200 is a KFQSA QBus DSSI card and a
HSD05 :)

...
  I've poked around in it, and on the net enough to
see what all is in
 it.. Should anyone be interested..

 2 RF72 1G drives.
 1 RF31 380M drive. 
Yum :)

alex/melt