On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:21:37AM -0400, Cory Smelosky wrote: If you could SAS as pure SCSI, SAS/SCSI converters are dirt cheap. ;) Links? It's an obnoxious thing to search for. :) This is patently untrue. The 146G disks in my 4000/90 prove that. :) I'd be surprised if you weren't using an adapter to attach an SCA drive. I tried that but the VAX didn't like seeing my 36G 10k RPM drive. I also kept bumping it and shorting out the adapter on the case... I did, but that shouldn't make any difference. It's just adapts between different physical connectors. There is no magic in a 50-pin/SCA adapter. Iirc solid-state SCSI drives existed. They did, and they still exist. They tend to be industrial grade stuff, however and also tend to be silly expensive. Yeah. It's unfortunate, really. :( -brian