Digital Items (VaxServer 4000/200)

[Jochen Kunz]

On Mon, 9 May 2005 00:51:46 EDT
Saquinn624 at aol.com wrote:

> Picked up a VAX 4000/200 myself recently. Fairly nice machine, heavy,
> same processor type as a Vaxstation 4000-VLC. Each memory board is 16
> MB, system can address up to 4. DSSI drives standard, probably also
> has SCSI Qbus card (the connector at the far side of the chassis is
> DSSI NOT SCSI). Rumor has it that there is some way to hack the SCSI
> through to the backplane shelf in lieu of the DSSI.
If it is a BA400 enclosure you can route SCSI to the right drive bay for
removable drives. There is the (IIRC) KZQSA SCSI adapter common on this
machines. This is a dump non-MSCP SCSI Adapter. It was intended as a
CDROM and tape only adapter.  Not of much use without VMS.

> the BA430 really needs two people to load (over 100lbs, I'm still
> sore)
Remove the disk drives and the PSU before lifting. I doo this all the
time when I move my VAX 4000-400 in a BA440...

> but the 215 is probably a one-person deal. 
Yes. I have a VAX 4000-200 in a BA215 and it is easy to lift for a
single person.

> Does anyone here know if DSSI is worth the bother? seems to be hard to
> find, small and expensive but I have no experience with it.
DSSI is cool. It is a smaler version of CI. DSSI disks appear as a
complete CI HSC with a single disk attached. You can use DSSI like CI to
cluster VAXen.
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tschüß,
       Jochen

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