[Info-vax] WTB: DSSI disks

[Paul Sture]

In article <E$jJgI2fyF82 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (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-)

Ah yes. There was a small wrinkle with the HSD05 in that the same disks 
which could be attached direct to a SCSI controller would end up with a 
slightly different MAXBLOCK size (something silly like 4 blocks 
difference), which in those days meant we couldn't shadow across the two 
interfaces. The HSD05 would also format a "new" disk when you connected 
it, so you couldn't simply plonk a data disk in there for data transfer 
purposes (we were looking at disaster recovery solutions at the time).

-- 
Paul Sture