[Info-vax] analyze/disk errors

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-12-10 16:51:30 +0000, tadamsmar said:

> Those have 80 pin interfaces, but I could spring for some more 
> adapters, the adapters seem to work OK.
> (One weird things about Alphas.  Our old AS800 has room for 4 hotswap 
> disks using the 80 pin interface. It somehow seems more advanced than 
> the DS10 with room for  only 2 drives.  Having more that 2 drives is 
> nice with shadowing because you can pop one out of the shadow set and 
> still have redundancy.)

Load'm into the old gray DEC StorageWorks Building Block (SBB) bricks.  
The gray plastic ones, used for the BA356 and its ilk.   You've 
probably got a few of those SBBs around with dead disks, or dinky 
disks.  Swap the guts, load'm into the shelf, initialize them 
<http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/193> (add /ERASE if you want a 
full-surface test), and transfer over the old contents with BACKUP 
/IMAGE /NOINITIALIZE



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