[HECnet] SSD for Vax

[Brian Hechinger]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 05:00:14PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:

If you could SAS as pure SCSI, SAS/SCSI converters are dirt cheap. ;)

Links? It's an obnoxious thing to search for. :)


Oops.   I meant SAS/SATA.   They're dirt cheap as you just grab the right
SFF cable. ;)

Might be. But both equally impossible to connect to your VAX, as it
actually have SCSI, and not SAS.

Yeah, completely not the same thing. :)

I did, but that shouldn't make any difference. It's just adapts between
different physical connectors. There is no magic in a 50-pin/SCA
adapter.

I must've had IDs and termination set wrong then.

Indeed. There are several different connectors for SCSI, but
adapters are available, and it's just straight wires between pins on
the different connectors.

The SCA adapters also add jumpers for ID selection and power as both
things come from the SCA backplane.

You can say that about anything you have to pay for. Or course it's
nicer if you could get it for free...

Free would be best, but reasonable cost would be fine, too. :)

-brian