Vax 6320 on Ebay

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Paul Koning wrote:
>  Jan-Benedict> ...One board (in the XMI cage) was a T2027, which is a
>  Jan-Benedict> XMI-to-FDDI board. Nice :)
>  >> Ha, I had forgotten that ever shipped.  I suspect that's not a
>  >> common board at all.  Of course, finding anything to plug it into
>  >> isn't easy anymore...
> 
>  9000> Aren't there some FDDI-SCSI converters? I bought one from ebay
>  9000> (HSD 5 or 10?)
> 
> FDDI to SCSI?  Not 100% impossible but it seems unlikely.  FDDI is a
> network interface, similar to 100BaseT (but much more complex for no
> benefit). 

No benefit?  I get much better transfer rates through regular FDDI than 
I do through *switched* 100Mbps ethernet.  I have a DEC GIGAswitch, and 
let me tell you that switched FDDI is *extremely* fast.

That's not even talking about fault-tolerance.

> You can run IP over it, of course.  And then you could run iSCSI, if
> you don't mind the slow performance.  But FDDI was obsolete long
> before iSCSI came out. So an FDDI to SCSI converter would have to be a
> proprietary hack.

Obselete?  It's still very much used in places where fault tolerance is 
important.

Peace...  Sridhar