Information Please -- HP 13037D Storage Control Unit

From: Jay West <jlwest_at_tseinc.com>
Date: Sat Aug 7 17:59:49 1999

You wrote...
> I went scrounging again today and came home with a HP 13037D Storage
>Control Unit Option 100

Off the top of my head without checking the manuals for accuracy.....

The 13037 was HP's bid to get away from having a different controller in the
backplane for each different drive. Previous disc interfaces were particular
to fixed head, moving head, drum, etc. In addition, the interfaces in the
card cage always took more than one slot as I recall. There is a 13037A, B,
and C that I know about, I have nothing that refers to the D model. With the
13037, one interface card goes in the card cage. Cables go from this to a
rack mount box (about 5 inches tall, about 28 inches deep). Inside this
rackmount box was a separate microprocessor board and additional disc
interfaces. The drives in turn were connected to the rackmount box.

The particular features of the 13037 stuff was that more than one system
could be connected to the rackmount microprocessor, but mainly different
types of discs could be connected. The 13037B could do 7905, 7906, and 7920
drives. The 13037C added the capability to do both MAC and HP-IB drives. I
have it on good word that the A and B models were junk (comparatively), and
that the C model was the "one to get". I might have a spare manual on the
13037, I'll have to check. I do have a 13037C under refurb at the moment.

Regards,

jay West
Received on Sat Aug 07 1999 - 17:59:49 BST

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