"System Technology Associates"? SDI-ESDI adapter

[Ethan Dicks]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 04:58:00PM -0700, Doc Shipley wrote:
>   I'm sitting on a pair of half-wide rackmount storage devices 
> silk-screened "RA 8" and "System Technology Associates" on front. 
> Standard buttons - Write-Protect, Fault, A, B, on the front panel and an 
> LED readout.  3 characters, I think.  There's a Control Data Corp label 
> on top of the box, but the model label on the side is STA.  Model RA8-1100.
> 
>   Open PSU inside, and a logic board that converts the SDI I/O to talk 
> to 2 Maxtor XT-8760-E ESDI drives.

That sounds similar to a box I have at home, but with an SDI<->ESDI bridge.

Mine is full-width (19"), and has the mounting space for 2 sets of drives
and bridge card, but only one set is installed, (2 x 1.2GB). 

>   So, has anybody ever seen one?

Not that exact one; sorry.

-ethan

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