george@hyper.lap.upenn.edu (George "Sir Lleb" Zipperlen) (02/05/91)
Is it possible to chain those 70Mb winchester disk drives on old DN300
or DN330 workstations? I'm saving a DN330 from the dumpster, and 140 Meg
would be a lot nicer than 70 for a home box.
I have R'd To the remaining ancient F Manuals, but could only find info
on chaining DSP80 storage modules, so I realize this may be a long shot.
Scavengingly, yours...
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george@hyper.lap.upenn.edu (George "Sir Lleb" Zipperlen) writes: >Is it possible to chain those 70Mb winchester disk drives on old DN300 >or DN330 workstations? I'm saving a DN330 from the dumpster, and 140 Meg >would be a lot nicer than 70 for a home box. >I have R'd To the remaining ancient F Manuals, but could only find info >on chaining DSP80 storage modules, so I realize this may be a long shot. >Scavengingly, yours... We also have a number of those boxes lying around. Does any know what interface the drives use (SMD perhaps?). Their model number is SMSD-70-... Is SMSD yet another interface? James S. Vera | Internet |Standard Disclaimers Stanford University|vera@fanaraaken.stanford.edu|Blah Blah Blah Blah Bellcore |vera2@rigel.cc.bellcore.com |
krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) (02/06/91)
I asked our filed service rep about this a long time ago. The answer was no. The controller for the DN3xx series disks does not support multiple drives according to what I was told. -- David Krowitz krowitz@richter.mit.edu (18.83.0.109) krowitz%richter.mit.edu@eddie.mit.edu krowitz%richter.mit.edu@mitvma.bitnet (in order of decreasing preference)
rees@pisa.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees) (02/07/91)
In article <9102061342.AA28921@richter.mit.edu>, krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) writes:
I asked our filed service rep about this a long time ago. The answer
was no. The controller for the DN3xx series disks does not support
multiple drives according to what I was told.
The guy was only partly right. The controller on the dn3xx has two st506
ports, and you can put two disks on it. Normally one would be a floppy and
one would be a winchester. In theory you could plug in two winchesters, but
you would need to patch the os to deal with this. I don't know anyone who
has tried this, but I know someone who is about to.krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) (02/13/91)
The phrase "MSD" used to stand for "Mass Storage Device" in the early Apollo (pre DN3000/4000) price list. For instance, the 500 MB CDC 9715 drives that came with the DSP80/80A/90 file servers were listed as MSD500-M in the price list. These (CDC 9715) drives are indeed SMD drives. I'm not certain about the DN300/320/330 drives. They might actually be ST506(?) drives. -- David Krowitz krowitz@richter.mit.edu (18.83.0.109) krowitz%richter.mit.edu@eddie.mit.edu krowitz%richter.mit.edu@mitvma.bitnet (in order of decreasing preference)