Re: SCSI to IDE bridges...

> Al, the auction link I posted was for a standard 50 pin
to IDE interface 
> for $30.  As of the time I posted the message he had
525 of them left.
> 
> Buy 'em now before you need 'em. 

That's a **** good price!  I don't need Narrow SCSI anywhere
near as much as
I need newer versions, but I'm still considering buying
some.  This could be
a good way to get a cheap *BIG* disk on a VMS system for
backing up the SCSI
disks to.  Anyone happen to know how large of disks these
support?  Smaller
EIDE drives are getting harder to find.  This might also be
a good way to
add a CD or DVD burner to a system.

Here is a warning for anyone looking to use these under VMS
though, they do
not support Volume Shadowing.  As such I'd really only
recommend using them
for a disk to backup to.  

Any idea if this outfit combines shipping?  They're charging
a pretty high
shipping cost for something like this.

Zane

>> Al, the auction link I posted was for a standard 50
pin to IDE interface
>> for $30.  As of the time I posted the message he
had 525 of them left.
>>
>> Buy 'em now before you need 'em. 
>
> That's a **** good price!  I don't need Narrow SCSI
anywhere near as much as
> I need newer versions, but I'm still considering buying
some.  This could be
> a good way to get a cheap *BIG* disk on a VMS system
for backing up the SCSI
> disks to.  Anyone happen to know how large of disks
these support?  Smaller
> EIDE drives are getting harder to find.  This might
also be a good way to
> add a CD or DVD burner to a system.
>
There are also Ultra Wide and LVD versions on eBay.  If I
remember 
correctly the LVD version is about $80.

> Here is a warning for anyone looking to use these under
VMS though, they do
> not support Volume Shadowing.  As such I'd really only
recommend using them
> for a disk to backup to.
>
You mean the HARDWARE doesn't support it, or VMS doesn't
support it for 
SCSI devices?

> Any idea if this outfit combines shipping?  They're
charging a pretty high
> shipping cost for something like this.

I ordered three of them and got a "discount" of
something like $18 for 
the UPS shipping charge.

g.

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Zane H. Healy wrote:

>I need newer versions, but I'm still considering buying
some.  This
could be
>a good way to get a cheap *BIG* disk on a VMS system for
backing up the
SCSI
>disks to.  Anyone happen to know how large of disks
these support?
Smaller
>EIDE drives are getting harder to find.  This might also
be a good way
to
>add a CD or DVD burner to a system.

Doesn't say. 100GB IDE drives are basically free. I'd really
like to get
something
of that size (or maybe a bit bigger) onto my VAXstation
4000-90.

>Here is a warning for anyone looking to use these under
VMS though,
they do
>not support Volume Shadowing.  As such I'd really only
recommend using
them
>for a disk to backup to.

This sounds like you've tried?

I recently had a go at putting a 140GB SCA-80 SCSI disk on
my VAXstation
4000-90
and it didn't want to know. I've not investigated very far
and it may be
something
very simple, but it just diudn't play ball. Similarly a
68-pin 36GB
device didn't
work. I do, however, have 3 18GB 68-pin SCSI disks working
in there
quite
happily.

So a simple solution that works in my VS4k90 would be really
nice. If
anyone
has one working in such an environment, I'd certainly be
keen to know.

FWIW: I don't care about volume shadowing too much. I just
want to image
all my ODS-2 CDs to a disk. Actually, having gone to all
that trouble
I'd then
want to back that disk up to another one that would then
just sit on the
shelf,
but otherwise I'm not too concerned about backup!


Antonio