b2wild@ucscb.ucsc.edu (-b2wild-) (03/22/90)
In response to (sbradley@iwarp.intel.com), who was looking to hook up maxtor ESDI drive to a Sun/3: A cheap way to do this (especially if you already have Sun's VME/SCSI controller, like we did, since we had the 1/4" tape), is to use a SCSI-to-ESDI board. In Sun's "Shoeboxes", the 141meg version is really just an Emulex MD21/A scsi-to-esdi board (about $90), and a Micropolis 1355 (or Fujitsu) drive (170meg unformatted). This approach is probably not quite as fast a an VME/ESDI controller card, but seems to be a pretty cheap alternative. (Sun's 1/4" tape drives typically use Sun's VME/SCSI card, so you can pick the SCSI bus off of that card.) - b2wild@ucscb.ucsc.edu -