I want to buy a TU-58

From: Geoff Roberts <geoffrob_at_stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au>
Date: Thu Feb 28 05:51:46 2002

----- Original Message -----
From: "Huw Davies" <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: I want to buy a TU-58


> At 01:16 AM 28/02/2002 -0800, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> >Didn't ancient HSC controllers
> >have a TU58 drive in them, for microcode patches?
>
> HSC50s booted from TU58 - not a pretty sight if you'd had a power failure
> and needed to restart everything.

Yeah it does take a while. Still got one of them, retired it from work last
year, not currently using it, but it's there.

> Fortunately, the site I worked at had
> HSC70s which booted of RX33s and even then booting seemed to take forever

LOL, replaced the HSC50 with a HSC70. Big improvement, but I have a dream
of finding one somewhere
with the caching kit in it so I can add it to ours. SDI drives (RA7x/RA9x)
are a bit slow at the best of times.
Regarding HSC's, I've often wondered if it was possible to get something
other than CRONIC to run on them....

> when there was a horde of angry axe-wielding users just outside the
> computer room :-)

I get them too, but usually only if the NetWare box goes down, if the
mail/web system (Vax 6000-440) is down it takes a little longer for the
phone to start ringing, usually by this time I have it half booted and am
waiting for the 'improperly dismounted' drives to remount. (Doubles the boot
up time!) Mind you, in the middle of the day when there are up to 5
computer rooms doing web searches and the proxy is off line, it can get like
that very quickly!

I've found and fitted a battery backup to it, but the batteries are
knackered, (well they are getting on a bit) going to pull it back out and
see what they are and replace them, make for faster restarts!

Cheers

Geoff Roberts
Computer Systems Manager
Saint Mark's College
Port Pirie,
South Australia
geoffrob_at_stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au
Received on Thu Feb 28 2002 - 05:51:46 GMT