CDC Sabre information

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Thu Dec 7 07:48:19 2000

> On Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:03:20 -0500 Douglas Quebbeman
> <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com> wrote:
> > Grrr... Thanks, John, I forgot how I had that page set up, and
> > the link I got from the properties was for the thumbnail,
> > not for the image for which it was a link. The full-sized
> > picture is indeed at:
> >
> > http://members.iglou.com/dougq/p2455/ICS&Cipher.jpg
> >
> > This is an FSD 500 (?), and predates Seagate's purchase of
> > CDC's drive division.
>
> Oh, weird, I have exactly the same Cifer front-loading tape
> drive in my living room, next to a CDC FSD 500 disk drive.
> My FSD 500 has a blue front panel, though. It's an SMD
> interface drive, but I have no source for jumper
> information and I need to change the sector size to suit a
> Sun host.

Yes, the Cipher F880 Microstreamer is a Pertec-interface
device. Some of them support 6250bpi, like the Pr1me version
shown in my photo, while I have a DEC TS05 version that has
only the 1600/3200 densitys.

Be advised that my Prime cables must be put on backwards
(i.e. the triangle on the connector does NOT go to pin 1/2).
YMMV, etc.

-dq
Received on Thu Dec 07 2000 - 07:48:19 GMT

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