[HECnet] SSD for Vax

Hello! Mark, the drive didn't work? Or did it not work out in the target system you had in mind? (Oddly enough I have one of those grouchy systems here. (S)he runs my website and does some other things.) I've been playing with the idea of tracking down a similar drive, but in the 32GB size for it, and take the time to shoehorn in the OS and then the website into it properly. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote: On 11/10/2013 08:21, Mark Benson wrote: On 11 Oct 2013, at 07:47, Daniel Soderstrom <snaggs at mac.com> wrote: There are plenty of CF or SD cards under 18gb. Also, there must be some way of only using part of a drive, as these cards are used extensively in old Macs which have a 170mb boot drive limit. I'm fully aware of that, in fact I plan to try using a 4GB CF card on my 4000/60 at some stage to see what it does. You linked to a *SATA* to SCSI adapter intended for use on hard drives? I'm aware that SATA to CF/SD adapters are available, I used one for a while with a CF card. That may be an option but like others have said the reliability can be variable. Also some companies that offer embedded micro-PC stuff also sell 8GB and 16GB SATA SSDs that might be an option too, maybe? I am fairly sure I have a 16GB one spare somewhere. On a Mac you can lay down partitions on the disk, the limit on a Mac IIRC is on partition size on the the early SCSI machines, not on the drive size (which I think is 2GB or 4GB on those due to limitations on the SCSI chip?). I am not aware of any way to make DEC software do that. -- Mark Benson http://DECtec.info Twitter: @DECtecInfo HECnet: STAR69::MARK Online Resource & Mailing List for DEC Enthusiasts. I bought one of these a while back off eBay: http://www.wickensonline.co.uk/images/20131011073307915.png It is a SAMSUNG 16GB Flash SSD MCAQE16G8APR-0XA 1.8" SSD 3.3V ATA5 UDMA66 This was with the intention of using it as the replacement drive in a Sun Ultra 5 workstation. It didn't work, but I guess I wouldn't rule it out in other applications. Regards, Mark. -- http://www.wickensonline.co.uk http://hecnet.eu http://declegacy.org.uk http://retrochallenge.net https://twitter.com/#!/%40urbancamo