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 | | From: | DAVID TURNER | | Subject: | Re: SCSI ON A VAX 4000/500 - WHAT DO I NEED? | | Date: | Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:15:24 -0500 |
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 | you are best off buying an old emulex ctr that emulates, hmmm, something too
old for me to remember
The one you need for the S Box (BA213) is the UC08-III - It has the funky
handle with the two levers for the 4500
You can find them from several dealers - try keyways.com - ask for mitch
miller - he is an ex deccy and knows his stuff!
we don't sell them any more !
david
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Island Computers US Corp
2700 Gregory St Suite 180
Savannah GA 31404
Tel: 912 4476622
Fax: 912 201 0402
Email: dbturner@icusc.com
wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I have acquired a VAX 4000/500A - unfortunately it had no disks
> what-so-ever but I have managed to acquire a DSSI disk for it.
>
> I plan to run VMS 7.3 on this machine but don't particularly want to
> rely on old, difficult to obtain DSSI disks - I would much rather run
> the box with SCSI disks.
>
> My trouble is trying to identify what my options are for converting the
> box to SCSI - I'm not a DEC/VAX hardware guru so codes like KXGYAFA-10
> (sorry being cheeky) don't mean a lot to me. From what I can find out
> there are two options some sort of QBUS card or a DSSI-SCSI convertor.
> I don't really fancy the QBUS card as I hear varying horror stories
> about that ranging from it's slower than a geological age, to "it only
> works with certain SCSI devices....and in any case not CDROMs or Disks"
> or it won't actually support booting.
>
> The DSSI-SCSI convertor (HSD10?) option sounds like the best bet. I
> assume it is some sort of box of tricks or electronic doo-ma-hicky that
> you plug a DSSI cable in and one side and magically it comes out as
> SCSI on the other side?
>
> If I type SHOW DEV or SHOW DSSI at the >>> prompt it does list two DSSI
> controllers/busses with IDs of 6 or 7 (which correspond to the little
> plugs on the front on the box). If I type SHOW SCSI it returns nothing,
> no errors, nothing (except the next >>> prompt).
>
> ANy help, details of Hardware conroller codes or designations that I
> need or descriptions of what these SCSI controllers are actually
> like...would be gratefully received.
>
> Regards
>
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| | From: | DAVID TURNER | | Subject: | Re: SCSI ON A VAX 4000/500 - WHAT DO I NEED? | | Date: | Fri, 31 Dec 2004 10:23:42 -0500 |
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| just did a dealer lookup for uc08
you'll be l;ooking at $400-500 from any of the dealers out there.
If you want the list of names for these let me know
dt
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Island Computers US Corp
2700 Gregory St Suite 180
Savannah GA 31404
Tel: 912 4476622
Fax: 912 201 0402
Email: dbturner@icusc.com
"DAVID TURNER" wrote in message
news:10taqqa33br6be9@news.supernews.com...
> you are best off buying an old emulex ctr that emulates, hmmm, something
too
> old for me to remember
>
> The one you need for the S Box (BA213) is the UC08-III - It has the funky
> handle with the two levers for the 4500
> You can find them from several dealers - try keyways.com - ask for mitch
> miller - he is an ex deccy and knows his stuff!
>
> we don't sell them any more !
>
> david
>
> --
> Island Computers US Corp
> 2700 Gregory St Suite 180
> Savannah GA 31404
> Tel: 912 4476622
> Fax: 912 201 0402
> Email: dbturner@icusc.com
>
>
> wrote in message
> news:1104347519.289666.74980@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> > Hi
> >
> > I have acquired a VAX 4000/500A - unfortunately it had no disks
> > what-so-ever but I have managed to acquire a DSSI disk for it.
> >
> > I plan to run VMS 7.3 on this machine but don't particularly want to
> > rely on old, difficult to obtain DSSI disks - I would much rather run
> > the box with SCSI disks.
> >
> > My trouble is trying to identify what my options are for converting the
> > box to SCSI - I'm not a DEC/VAX hardware guru so codes like KXGYAFA-10
> > (sorry being cheeky) don't mean a lot to me. From what I can find out
> > there are two options some sort of QBUS card or a DSSI-SCSI convertor.
> > I don't really fancy the QBUS card as I hear varying horror stories
> > about that ranging from it's slower than a geological age, to "it only
> > works with certain SCSI devices....and in any case not CDROMs or Disks"
> > or it won't actually support booting.
> >
> > The DSSI-SCSI convertor (HSD10?) option sounds like the best bet. I
> > assume it is some sort of box of tricks or electronic doo-ma-hicky that
> > you plug a DSSI cable in and one side and magically it comes out as
> > SCSI on the other side?
> >
> > If I type SHOW DEV or SHOW DSSI at the >>> prompt it does list two DSSI
> > controllers/busses with IDs of 6 or 7 (which correspond to the little
> > plugs on the front on the box). If I type SHOW SCSI it returns nothing,
> > no errors, nothing (except the next >>> prompt).
> >
> > ANy help, details of Hardware conroller codes or designations that I
> > need or descriptions of what these SCSI controllers are actually
> > like...would be gratefully received.
> >
> > Regards
> >
>
>
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