[HECnet] SSD for Vax

[Mark Wickens]

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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