[Info-vax] WTB: DSSI disks

R.A.Omond Roy.Omond at BlueBubble.UK.Com
Fri Nov 20 09:55:56 EST 2009


Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <787it6-sie.ln1 at Ubuntu.mike-r.com>, Mike Rechtman <mike at rechtman.com> writes:
>> 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.
> 
>    DEC's HSD05 was one such beast.  Very small beast, physically.  8-)

Try to avoid the HSD05 if you possibly can.  Its throughput was, ahem,
miserable.  I have a couple of HSD05's somewhere in my museum.

The HSD10 and later HSD30  were huge improvements.  You can fit these
in a BA350 / BAS356 / BA353 (Pizza box).

I'm currently on-site at one customer where I've seen such HSD adaptors
thrown out in the dumpster recently :-(



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