Subject: Re: MicroVAX4000/505A drive sleds

From: "Robert F. Schaefer" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun May 4 01:29:48 2003

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From: "Greg Elkin" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 6:40 AM
Subject: MicroVAX4000/505A drive sleds

> Just acquired a VAX 4000/505A (thanks Paul!) with no disks installed -
>  anyone got the details for adding a raw DSSI disk to one of these
> things ; the chasis has a drive backplane at the top with 4 edge
> connectors, into which a drive sled of some form slots in. I need to
> knock up whatever is on the sleds, drive LEDs & switches. Unless
> anyone has some excess sleds that I could liberate?..

Cant help with the sleds, but it is possible to run DSSI drives without the
ID plug, see http://www.mcmanis.com/chuck/computers/vaxen/dssi-plug.html.
Short answer: logon to the console of the drives' embedded processor and
tell it it's new address!  Can your peasea do that?  ^_^

> ta
> greg

Bob