[rescue] San Antonio, TX area rescue

[Dave McGuire]

On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 08:59 PM, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> There is a manufacturer out there who makes DASD controllers for the 
> s/390 that will use commodity FC-AL or even IDE hard disks.  If I can 
> remember who that is I'll post it.

   ...that would probably cost 10X what I just paid for these two 
systems.  I'm going to be pretty much stuck with what's in them and 
whatever else I can scrounge from the surplus market, I think.  Thanks 
for the suggestion, though.

>>    - what kind of cables do I need to connect to the disk drives?
>
> IIRC, these are direct channel connection which is a pretty thick 
> umbilical connection.  I fired off a note to someone who may know more 
> about this stuff and see what he says.

   I'm guessing that'd either be ESCON or Bus & Tag...probably the 
former; I believe the latter was phased out many years ago.  These 
machines are apparently circa 1999.

   There is some doubt, though, that there are actually two separate 
machines...it may be a two-cabinet system.  I'm waiting for more 
information.

         -Dave

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