[HECnet] SSD for Vax

[Hans Vlems]

That's odd, my VS 4000/60 and /90A also show non Dec branded disks on the >>> sho dev command.   
Must check that owing to failing organic memory...


Van: Mark Wickens
Verzonden: vrijdag 11 oktober 2013 09:17
Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Beantwoorden: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] SSD for Vax


On 11/10/2013 01:52, Daniel Soderstrom wrote:
> http://www.artmix.com/SATA_SCSI_AZMN_II_1.html
>
> This adapter is available on ebay for $149 and he says they work well in Vaxstations. He also has some which take CF flash cards.
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel,
>
>
Thanks for the link Daniel. This is great news. I know that there have 
been various incarnations of adapters that have come and gone and been 
niche enough that there hasn't been reliable evidence of their 
functionality computers with older scsi implementations. Typically they 
are built to support equipment in the music industry.

Anything that provides us a way forward is definitely a good thing! I 
don't like noisy hard drives any more than the next person.
I will have to explore my theory of the 18GB limit on the VAXstation 
4000/60 and /90 and I thought that was a hard rule, but I'm happy to be 
proved wrong. It may be that I was using an earlier version of VMS where 
it definitely is the case that only certain models of drive are 
supported. I had to root around to find a supported drive for OpenVMS 
6.1 - even generic Seagate 50 pin SCSI 2.1GB drives weren't recognised 
because they aren't RZ* tagged in the firmware.

Regards, Mark.

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