[Info-vax] BA356 16-bit (wide) personality module

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In article <ib0oq8$uod$1 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
>In article
><67940eee-7661-4ea8-8528-817b814e984d at x42g2000yqx.googlegroups.com>, H
>Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes: 
>
>> Not sure Phillip, could you give some model numbers?
>
>BA356 with the standard personality modules.
>
>> Your explanation indicates you're using a shelf controller with two 68
>> pin female connectors, one on the front
>> and one on the side of the controller, right?
>
>I think of the controller as the PCI card in the box.  The personality 
>module lets a wide box talk to a narrow or wide controller, depending on 
>which one one installs.  Although the wide PMs have some switches, 
>basically they are (I think) just a connector.  The narrow ones give the 

Those switches are used for setting the base SCSI address in the BA shelf.

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