[HECnet] SSD for Vax

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
Mark, the drive didn't work? Or did it not work out in the target
system you had in mind? (Oddly enough I have one of those grouchy
systems here. (S)he runs my website and does some other things.)

I've been playing with the idea of tracking down a similar drive, but
in the 32GB size for it, and take the time to shoehorn in the OS and
then the website into it properly.
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On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:
On 11/10/2013 08:21, Mark Benson wrote:


On 11 Oct 2013, at 07:47, Daniel Soderstrom <snaggs at mac.com> wrote:

There are plenty of CF or SD cards under 18gb. Also, there must be some way
of only using part of a drive, as these cards are used extensively in old
Macs which have a 170mb boot drive limit.


I'm fully aware of that, in fact I plan to try using a 4GB CF card on my
4000/60 at some stage to see what it does. You linked   to a *SATA* to SCSI
adapter    intended for use on hard drives?

I'm aware that SATA to CF/SD adapters are available, I used one for a while
with a CF card. That may be an option but like others have said the
reliability can be variable. Also some companies that offer embedded
micro-PC stuff also sell 8GB and 16GB SATA SSDs that might be an option too,
maybe? I am fairly sure I have a 16GB one spare somewhere.

On a Mac you can lay down partitions on the disk, the limit on a Mac IIRC is
on partition size on the the early SCSI machines, not on the drive size
(which I think is 2GB or 4GB on those due to limitations on the SCSI chip?).
I am not aware of any way to make DEC software do that.

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I bought one of these a while back off eBay:

http://www.wickensonline.co.uk/images/20131011073307915.png

It is a SAMSUNG 16GB Flash SSD MCAQE16G8APR-0XA 1.8" SSD 3.3V ATA5 UDMA66
This was with the intention of using it as the replacement drive in a Sun
Ultra 5 workstation. It didn't work, but I guess I wouldn't rule it out in
other applications.

Regards, Mark.


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