[Info-vax] rx2600s on eBay

[Richard Maher]

Hi John

Great little boxes aren't they!

I had some incredibly helpful people make everything extremely easy for me,
but I haven't heard anyone who's unhappy with these machines. If there are
any still going then I recommend everyone go out and buy one.

Cheers Richard Maher

"JC" <thecookson at gmail.com> wrote in message
news:bdf1beae-1216-4f25-ad20-574998e3788f at p11g2000yqe.googlegroups.com...
Just to let anyone who is interested know about the status
of my ebay rx2600 servers.

The experience was very satisfactory. Assetrecovery (The Vendor)
were excellent to deal with and my servers arrived intact on a skid
and very well packaged. They even included a power cord for each
server.

I purchased the appropriate DVD drive from HP for $195 and although
this drive is made by TEAC, it looks different to the Non-HP Teac
drive
which carries the same Teac model number. The HP version is modified
and has the interface connection in a non-standard position, so it
lines up with the rx2600 IDE connector inside the server case. It also
has some side mounted metal sprung clips which hold it in place
after installation. I certainly recommend buying this drive from HP if
you
wish to avoid installation problems.

I had no problems booting the first rx2600 server using a hard drive
from my existing rx1620 server which already had OpenVMS 8.2-1
installed on it. Using Ebay, I have now ordered a lot of 4 used 32GB
15K U320 Fujitsu drives which were available for $130. I have also
ordered some serial console cables for each of the rx2600 servers.

So far I am very pleased with everything. If there is any interest, I
will
continue to update my progress to this group.

JohnC





On Mar 25, 4:17 pm, JC <thecook... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your comment Steven
>
> I decided to order a brand new one from HP Canada
> Price is CDN$195 (Strange but HP US$ price is also US$195)
> I went for the 5-7 day shipping option as it is free.
>
> I'll post back here with details of how I get on with it
> although I am still waiting for delivery of my rx2600
> servers which must be coming by "Molasses" Transport
> Company. Go figure... It took one day for these servers
> to get from the US to Canada, then forever for them to
> get to my door (The last 20 miles).
>
> John Cookson
>
> On Mar 23, 3:22 pm, Steven Schweda <sms.antin... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > JC wrote:
> > > Do these servers already include the IDE cable required for connection
> > > of
> > > the DVD-ROM drive.
>
> > If we read "the IDE cable" as "an IDE cable", then mine
> > did, but it's a fancy/unusual cable, with fancy/unusual
> > connectors, so I'd guess that you won't have anything to which
> > it'll connect. I gather that the official DVD drive has a
> > suitable adapter pasted on.
>
> > > I have noticed there seem to be good ebay deals on bare 73gb 15K
> > > Fujitsu drives
> > > at the moment, so I will be getting some of these I think. Comments on
> > > this
> > > group seem to indicate that the drive trays included with these
> > > servers
> > > are OK to work with as I was uncertain if they would fit bare drives
> > > properly.
>
> > Ignoring things like capacity, speed, height, power
> > dissipation, and reliability, if you've seen one SCA SCSI disk
> > drive, you've seen them all.