Used as in had them connected, or used as in brought them online?
The latter? No idea. The former? AlphaServer ES40 on both VMS and Tru64.
----- Original Message -----
| From: "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
| To: hecnet at update.uu.se
| Sent: Thursday, 14 February, 2013 11:31:49 PM
| Subject: Re: [HECnet] ES40 arrived! New nodes please
|
| On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
| > https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-hizoqnBIhAw/UR248z3sv4I/AAAAAAAAA8I/adXQ…
| >
| > I have a few of these.
| >
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > | From: "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
| > | To: hecnet at update.uu.se
| > | Sent: Thursday, 14 February, 2013 11:25:58 PM
| > | Subject: Re: [HECnet] ES40 arrived! New nodes please
| > |
| > | On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Dave McGuire
| > | <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
| > | > On 02/14/2013 11:15 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
| > | >> Mine are pretty much like those, except the internal connector
| > | >> is
| > | >> parallel, they work with VMS, and they're not parallel SCSI
| > | >> inside.
| > | >
| > | > If they're not parallel SCSI inside, then what are they?
| > | >
| > | > The ISP1080 (I think you mentioned your board is
| > | > ISP1080-based)
| > | > is a
| > | > pretty common PCI to SCSI host adapter chip. Nearly all of the
| > | > required
| > | > circuitry is on that chip.
| > | >
| > | > What Gregg was looking for was, I think, something from the
| > | > Adaptec
| > | > AHA2940 family. Different chip, same basic idea, just as
| > | > common,
| > | > but
| > | > incompatible at the register level.
| > | >
| > | > -Dave
| > | >
| > | > --
| > | > Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
| > | > New Kensington, PA
| > |
| > | Hello!
| > | Yes indeed.
| > |
| > | **Abruptly your ankles get grabbed by four cats and two big brown
| > | boxes that are humming the "Enigma Variations".**
| > |
| > | -----
| > | Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
| > | "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
| > |
| >
| > --
| > Cory Smelosky
| > http://gewt.net Personal stuff
| > http://gimme-sympathy.org Experiments
| > http://dev.gimme-sympathy.org Home experiments
| >
|
| Hello!
| What system last used any of them?
|
| **Abruptly snow is thrown at your windows.**
| -----
| Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
| "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
|
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Experiments
http://dev.gimme-sympathy.org Home experiments
Yeah, my mistake there. I confused connectors and specs again.
----- Original Message -----
| From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
| To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
| Sent: Thursday, 14 February, 2013 11:31:20 PM
| Subject: Re: [HECnet] ES40 arrived! New nodes please
|
|
| That's most certainly parallel SCSI; it has connectors for both 8-
| and
| 16-bit wide buses internally.
|
| -Dave
|
| On 02/14/2013 11:31 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
| > https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-hizoqnBIhAw/UR248z3sv4I/AAAAAAAAA8I/adXQ…
| >
| > I have a few of these.
| >
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > | From: "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
| > | To: hecnet at update.uu.se
| > | Sent: Thursday, 14 February, 2013 11:25:58 PM
| > | Subject: Re: [HECnet] ES40 arrived! New nodes please
| > |
| > | On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Dave McGuire
| > | <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
| > | > On 02/14/2013 11:15 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
| > | >> Mine are pretty much like those, except the internal connector
| > | >> is
| > | >> parallel, they work with VMS, and they're not parallel SCSI
| > | >> inside.
| > | >
| > | > If they're not parallel SCSI inside, then what are they?
| > | >
| > | > The ISP1080 (I think you mentioned your board is
| > | > ISP1080-based)
| > | > is a
| > | > pretty common PCI to SCSI host adapter chip. Nearly all of the
| > | > required
| > | > circuitry is on that chip.
| > | >
| > | > What Gregg was looking for was, I think, something from the
| > | > Adaptec
| > | > AHA2940 family. Different chip, same basic idea, just as
| > | > common,
| > | > but
| > | > incompatible at the register level.
| > | >
| > | > -Dave
|
|
|
| --
| Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
| New Kensington, PA
|
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Experiments
http://dev.gimme-sympathy.org Home experiments
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
That's most certainly parallel SCSI; it has connectors for both 8- and
16-bit wide buses internally.
-Dave
On 02/14/2013 11:31 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-hizoqnBIhAw/UR248z3sv4I/AAAAAAAAA8I/adXQ…
I have a few of these.
----- Original Message -----
| From: "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
| To: hecnet at update.uu.se
| Sent: Thursday, 14 February, 2013 11:25:58 PM
| Subject: Re: [HECnet] ES40 arrived! New nodes please
|
| On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Dave McGuire
| <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
| > On 02/14/2013 11:15 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
| >> Mine are pretty much like those, except the internal connector is
| >> parallel, they work with VMS, and they're not parallel SCSI
| >> inside.
| >
| > If they're not parallel SCSI inside, then what are they?
| >
| > The ISP1080 (I think you mentioned your board is ISP1080-based)
| > is a
| > pretty common PCI to SCSI host adapter chip. Nearly all of the
| > required
| > circuitry is on that chip.
| >
| > What Gregg was looking for was, I think, something from the
| > Adaptec
| > AHA2940 family. Different chip, same basic idea, just as common,
| > but
| > incompatible at the register level.
| >
| > -Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hello!
True. But would it work on a Linux system and support an external drive box?
I have a feeling we are chasing zebras without backup here.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:31 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-hizoqnBIhAw/UR248z3sv4I/AAAAAAAAA8I/adXQ…
I have a few of these.
----- Original Message -----
| From: "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
| To: hecnet at update.uu.se
| Sent: Thursday, 14 February, 2013 11:25:58 PM
| Subject: Re: [HECnet] ES40 arrived! New nodes please
|
| On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Dave McGuire
| <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
| > On 02/14/2013 11:15 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
| >> Mine are pretty much like those, except the internal connector is
| >> parallel, they work with VMS, and they're not parallel SCSI
| >> inside.
| >
| > If they're not parallel SCSI inside, then what are they?
| >
| > The ISP1080 (I think you mentioned your board is ISP1080-based)
| > is a
| > pretty common PCI to SCSI host adapter chip. Nearly all of the
| > required
| > circuitry is on that chip.
| >
| > What Gregg was looking for was, I think, something from the
| > Adaptec
| > AHA2940 family. Different chip, same basic idea, just as common,
| > but
| > incompatible at the register level.
| >
| > -Dave
| >
| > --
| > Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
| > New Kensington, PA
|
| Hello!
| Yes indeed.
|
| **Abruptly your ankles get grabbed by four cats and two big brown
| boxes that are humming the "Enigma Variations".**
|
| -----
| Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
| "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
|
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Experiments
http://dev.gimme-sympathy.org Home experiments
Hello!
What system last used any of them?
**Abruptly snow is thrown at your windows.**
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-hizoqnBIhAw/UR248z3sv4I/AAAAAAAAA8I/adXQ…
I have a few of these.
----- Original Message -----
| From: "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
| To: hecnet at update.uu.se
| Sent: Thursday, 14 February, 2013 11:25:58 PM
| Subject: Re: [HECnet] ES40 arrived! New nodes please
|
| On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Dave McGuire
| <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
| > On 02/14/2013 11:15 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
| >> Mine are pretty much like those, except the internal connector is
| >> parallel, they work with VMS, and they're not parallel SCSI
| >> inside.
| >
| > If they're not parallel SCSI inside, then what are they?
| >
| > The ISP1080 (I think you mentioned your board is ISP1080-based)
| > is a
| > pretty common PCI to SCSI host adapter chip. Nearly all of the
| > required
| > circuitry is on that chip.
| >
| > What Gregg was looking for was, I think, something from the
| > Adaptec
| > AHA2940 family. Different chip, same basic idea, just as common,
| > but
| > incompatible at the register level.
| >
| > -Dave
| >
| > --
| > Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
| > New Kensington, PA
|
| Hello!
| Yes indeed.
|
| **Abruptly your ankles get grabbed by four cats and two big brown
| boxes that are humming the "Enigma Variations".**
|
| -----
| Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
| "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
|
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Experiments
http://dev.gimme-sympathy.org Home experiments
That's most certainly parallel SCSI; it has connectors for both 8- and
16-bit wide buses internally.
-Dave
On 02/14/2013 11:31 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-hizoqnBIhAw/UR248z3sv4I/AAAAAAAAA8I/adXQ…
I have a few of these.
----- Original Message -----
| From: "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
| To: hecnet at update.uu.se
| Sent: Thursday, 14 February, 2013 11:25:58 PM
| Subject: Re: [HECnet] ES40 arrived! New nodes please
|
| On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Dave McGuire
| <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
| > On 02/14/2013 11:15 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
| >> Mine are pretty much like those, except the internal connector is
| >> parallel, they work with VMS, and they're not parallel SCSI
| >> inside.
| >
| > If they're not parallel SCSI inside, then what are they?
| >
| > The ISP1080 (I think you mentioned your board is ISP1080-based)
| > is a
| > pretty common PCI to SCSI host adapter chip. Nearly all of the
| > required
| > circuitry is on that chip.
| >
| > What Gregg was looking for was, I think, something from the
| > Adaptec
| > AHA2940 family. Different chip, same basic idea, just as common,
| > but
| > incompatible at the register level.
| >
| > -Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 02/14/2013 11:15 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Mine are pretty much like those, except the internal connector is
parallel, they work with VMS, and they're not parallel SCSI inside.
If they're not parallel SCSI inside, then what are they?
The ISP1080 (I think you mentioned your board is ISP1080-based) is a
pretty common PCI to SCSI host adapter chip. Nearly all of the required
circuitry is on that chip.
What Gregg was looking for was, I think, something from the Adaptec
AHA2940 family. Different chip, same basic idea, just as common, but
incompatible at the register level.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hello!
Yes indeed.
**Abruptly your ankles get grabbed by four cats and two big brown
boxes that are humming the "Enigma Variations".**
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On 02/14/2013 11:15 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Mine are pretty much like those, except the internal connector is
parallel, they work with VMS, and they're not parallel SCSI inside.
If they're not parallel SCSI inside, then what are they?
The ISP1080 (I think you mentioned your board is ISP1080-based) is a
pretty common PCI to SCSI host adapter chip. Nearly all of the required
circuitry is on that chip.
What Gregg was looking for was, I think, something from the Adaptec
AHA2940 family. Different chip, same basic idea, just as common, but
incompatible at the register level.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Mine are pretty much like those, except the internal connector is parallel, they work with VMS, and they're not parallel SCSI inside.
----- Original Message -----
| From: "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
| To: hecnet at update.uu.se
| Sent: Thursday, 14 February, 2013 11:07:52 PM
| Subject: Re: [HECnet] ES40 arrived! New nodes please
|
| On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
| > Yup. It's got an external connector.
| >
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > | From: "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
| > | To: hecnet at update.uu.se
| > | Sent: Thursday, 14 February, 2013 10:42:43 PM
| > | Subject: Re: [HECnet] ES40 arrived! New nodes please
| > |
| > | On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net>
| > | wrote:
| > | > Feb 14 14:09:55 missy vmunix: isp0: QLOGIC ISP1040B/V2 -
| > | > Differential Mode
| > | >
| > | > I have 3 or 4 of those.
| > | >
| > | > ----- Original Message -----
| > | > | From: "Gregg Levine" <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
| > | > | To: hecnet at update.uu.se
| > | > | Sent: Thursday, 14 February, 2013 10:23:48 PM
| > | > | Subject: Re: [HECnet] ES40 arrived! New nodes please
| > | > |
| > | > | On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Gregg Levine
| > | > | <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
| > | > | > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Cory Smelosky
| > | > | > <b4 at gewt.net>
| > | > | > wrote:
| > | > | >>
| > | > | >> On 14 Feb 2013, at 15:43, Ian McLaughlin
| > | > | >> <ian at platinum.net>
| > | > | >> wrote:
| > | > | >>
| > | > | >>> On 2013-02-14, at 12:31 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net>
| > | > | >>> wrote:
| > | > | >>>
| > | > | >>>> What size drives are the sleds for? If they're 3.5",
| > | > | >>>> could
| > | > | >>>> I
| > | > | >>>> get some of those? I've currently got my drives propped
| > | > | >>>> up
| > | > | >>>> with unneeded CDs. ;)
| > | > | >>>
| > | > | >>>
| > | > | >>>
| > | > | >>> These are the types of sleds:
| > | > | >>>
| > | > | >>> https://www.dropbox.com/s/ldvp4z8p2csaezx/IMG_1215.jpg
| > | > | >>>
| > | > | >>> The machine takes 12 drives, so I'll have to pillage my
| > | > | >>> collection to fill this box up. I may be able to find a
| > | > | >>> couple
| > | > | >>> spare for you if those are the style you need. Got
| > | > | >>> anything
| > | > | >>> to
| > | > | >>> exchange?
| > | > | >>
| > | > | >> 5.25" drive blanks? ;) Or some SCSI controllers I have
| > | > | >> something
| > | > | >> like 4 or 5 I won't use. ;)
| > | > | >>
| > | > | >>>
| > | > | >>> Ian
| > | > | >>>
| > | > | >>
| > | > | >
| > | > | > Hello!
| > | > | > Which ones are they Ian? I need an Aha2940UW but without
| > | > | > the
| > | > | > manufacturer branding.
| > | > | >
| > | > | > -----
| > | > | > Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
| > | > | > "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
| > | > |
| > | > | My mistake, Cory, not Ian.
| > | > |
| > | > | And exploring the area around Dave's place are a veritable
| > | > | Alien's
| > | > | Inc
| > | > | collection of aliens. With a double-dec surrounding someone
| > | > | else's
| > | > | place.
| > | > |
| > | > | -----
| > | > | Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
| > | > | "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
| > | > |
| > | >
| > | > --
| > | > Cory Smelosky
| > | > http://gewt.net Personal stuff
| > | > http://gimme-sympathy.org Experiments
| > | > http://dev.gimme-sympathy.org Home experiments
| > | >
| > |
| > | Hello!
| > | Are these the type that have a connector that's mounted on the
| > | backplane retention thing? I've got an external SCSI box that has
| > | the
| > | majority of my data (files and only the Force knows what else)
| > | stored
| > | on it.
| > |
| > | And can you supply a good photo of it?
| > | -----
| > | Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
| > | "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
| > |
| >
| > --
| > Cory Smelosky
| > http://gewt.net Personal stuff
| > http://gimme-sympathy.org Experiments
| > http://dev.gimme-sympathy.org Home experiments
| >
|
| Hello!
| I see. This is the sort of thing I am looking for
| http://www.weirdstuff.com/cgi-bin/item/14251 basically its the same
| as
| the others I have here.
|
| But those are personalized for Dell systems who are nothing at all
| like the crowd coming online now. (The guys now are using SATA and
| behave like that. The personalized cards won't work there.)
|
| **Suddenly something starts blowing green smoke at the windows of the
| structure that Dave and crowd are inside.**
| -----
| Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
| "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
|
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Experiments
http://dev.gimme-sympathy.org Home experiments
On 02/14/2013 11:07 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
I see. This is the sort of thing I am looking for
http://www.weirdstuff.com/cgi-bin/item/14251 basically its the same as
the others I have here.
But those are personalized for Dell systems who are nothing at all
like the crowd coming online now. (The guys now are using SATA and
behave like that. The personalized cards won't work there.)
I probably have twenty of those. If you can't score one from Cory,
let me know and I'll put one on your "care package" pile. (I'll get to
that soon, I promise!)
**Suddenly something starts blowing green smoke at the windows of the
structure that Dave and crowd are inside.**
Oops...excuse me! I had a lot of Mexican food earlier.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
