ammrk@swbatl.sbc.com (Mike R. Kraml) (06/10/91)
That about sums it up. I got a Core tape drive at a Ham fest. The unit
came in an external box, with the above tape drive, and an Everex Board
(full size of the tape drive) that sits between the tape drive and the rear
connector on the box. Any ideas what I have?????
Thanks, Mike...
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=============================================================================berger@clio.sts.uiuc.edu (Mike Berger) (06/13/91)
ammrk@swbatl.sbc.com (Mike R. Kraml) writes: > That about sums it up. I got a Core tape drive at a Ham fest. The unit >came in an external box, with the above tape drive, and an Everex Board >(full size of the tape drive) that sits between the tape drive and the rear >connector on the box. Any ideas what I have????? *---- I'm a little confused about this too. Our Sun 3's have Archive 5945C's in them. When I shopped around for a replacement, I was told by one of the distributors that it is an ESDI drive. I found one from a surplus source, listed as a SCSI product... but it comes with a separate "formatter" board, which may be a ESDI-to-SCSI converter. I could use a definitive answer too! -- Mike Berger Department of Statistics, University of Illinois AT&TNET 217-244-6067 Internet berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
wilko@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (W.C. Bulte) (06/14/91)
In article <1991Jun13.164919.26557@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@clio.sts.uiuc.edu (Mike Berger) writes: >ammrk@swbatl.sbc.com (Mike R. Kraml) writes: >I'm a little confused about this too. Our Sun 3's have Archive 5945C's >in them. When I shopped around for a replacement, I was told by one of >the distributors that it is an ESDI drive. I found one from a surplus >source, listed as a SCSI product... but it comes with a separate >"formatter" board, which may be a ESDI-to-SCSI converter. I could use >a definitive answer too! ESDI is definitely a disk interface standard (get on the lookout for another distributor). The 5945C is equipped with a QIC interface, so probably the board you mention is a QIC to SCSI controller. _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte Domain: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) System Engineering uucp : [mcsun,hp4nl]!philapd!wilko * Philips Information Systems Nederland phone: +31 55-432372 fax: +31 55-432103 "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'" Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back ________________________________________________________________________________
wilker@gauss.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) (06/16/91)
I believe the 5945c is just the "raw" drive, which is QIC02/36 ??? interface. The sun 3/50 shoe boxes had a SCSI--> QIC board, probably a emulex mt02. I have used the 5845c on an AT with an ARhive adapter, SC499R. All numbers here are subject to question since I'm reading them out my personal RAM, which has not been refreshed for several months on this subject! Clarence Wilkerson