[Info-vax] Unix on A DEC Vax?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <kdbi9s$me9$1 at dont-email.me>,
	Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> On 2013-01-18 03:47:26 +0000, Howard S Shubs said:
> 
>> In article <kda6d7$sd6$1 at dont-email.me>,
>>  Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm starting testing with some new Seagate Cheetah SCSI disks in some
>>> VMS boxes, and the folks at Nemonix Engineering were offering
>>> compatible storage widgets for use with old DEC gear; new storage guts,
>>> with DEC-compatible mountings and interfaces.
>> 
>> Got a source for new DSSI drives?  Please?  I've got a 4000m500A which
>> needs something reliable.
> 
> You could scrounge an HSD05 (Q-bus based) or an HSD10 (StorageWorks 
> brick) DSSI-to-SCSI adapter, and connect to SCSI drives.
 
Or just put a SCSI QBus module in and dump the DSSI entirely. (Don't
get me wrong, I ran DSSI on my 4000's and thought they were great. 
But, unfortunately, the rest of the world just chose to ignore DSSI
which I once heard described as "SCSI done right".)

bill
 

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