[Info-vax] WTB: DSSI disks

[Paul Sture]

In article <38SAi1cuNap0 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

> In article <00818887$0$23819$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei 
> <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> > 
> > NEMONIX Engineering did produce DSSI drives with more recent and higher
> > capacity HDAs, but I believe that Digital stopped at 2 gigs.
> 
>    DEC joined the handwriting on the wall and offered a DSSI to
>    SCSI converter, which looked like a single node on the DSSI bus.
> 
>    We picked up a few of these for our VAX 4000 (DSSI and Qbus) many 
>    years ago after DEC stopped offering DSSI disks.  The SCSI bus works 
>    fine for all out needs.
> 
>    We didn't want a third party solution on the Qbus because we had
>    multiple realtime devices on that bus.

I'm pretty sure that there was a third party DSSI to SCSI converter 
offering as well (Emulex?).

-- 
Paul Sture