Re: DEC SDI disks on a PC?

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From: Dave Green
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 04:43

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tvg@ccphys.nsu.ru (Vladimir G. Tupitsin) wrote:
>  Hi all!
>
>  Does anybody know some way to connect SDI disks to a PC?

I don't think you can do it. The DEC SDI protocol is a proprietary serial 
communication scheme.

>
>  We at Novosibirsk University have an old VAX-11/780 and are planning to
>get rid of it in the nearest future. But it has about 4GB of disks connected to it
>and we would be glad not to lose them. I have heard in some newsgroup about
>SMD-to-SCSI adapters. But we have SDI disks (RA90, RA81).

The cost of the electricity to run these drives for a year would probably cover the 
price of some new IDE or SCSI disks !

>
>  Does such thing as SDI-to-SCSI adapter exist? Or maybe there is some
>other way to attach VAX SDI disks to a PC?

There are (were) SDI-SCSI adapters, but they were designed to let you run SCSI disks 
on an SDI interface, not the other way around. It may be possible, but I doubt it.

Dave
Ex Dec Tech

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