[Info-vax] WTB: DSSI disks

[Mike Rechtman]

starchild wrote:
> On Nov 20, 12:41 am, Howard S Shubs <how... at shubs.net> wrote:
>> In article <00818887$0$23819$c3e8... at news.astraweb.com>,
>>  JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> NEMONIX Engineering did produce DSSI drives with more recent and higher
>>> capacity HDAs, but I believe that Digital stopped at 2 gigs.
>> And when were the very last ones made?  By anyone?
>>
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> 
> Hello
> His/her 4000-100A will not take the big 5.25 inch drives. The
> 4000-100a supported 3 dssi drives on the top and
> 2  50 pin scsi on the bottom. They need something like the RF35 (825)/
> RF31(150) or the RF36(1.6). I maybe wrong
> but the RF36 was the biggest dssi drive in the 3.5 factor. If they're
> using a external dssi cab (R215) then those drives
> would come in handy.
> 
IIRC there is/was a small storage box that took SCSI disks and connected to DSSI 
(BA10 or some such?) I know I've seen them in action.

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