From: Glenn C. Everhart [Everhart@GCE.com]
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 9:14 PM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: They sold an IDEplex to me quantity 1

Alcita (www.alcita.com) sold me q1.
They sold me one direct. I gather they would prefer to sell to
OEMs by thousands, but they have a quantity one price. It IS a
nifty thing. Imagine: one narrow SCSI bus, with 7 IDs available,
can control up to 56 IDE disks or CDs if you hang one of these
on each ID. If you use the 80GB disks now available, that would
add up to something close to 4.5 terabytes. With just one of them
you get around 2/3 terabyte, with the size IDE drives available
now.

I would not want to try using it for a boot device; I just
put 

$ sysman io conn fkb0:/noada/driver=sys$system:sys$fkdriver
$ sysman io conn fkb1:/noada/driver=sys$system:sys$fkdriver
... and so on
(I happen to be using SCSI ID 0 on bus B)
to connect the things in systartup_vms.com. You can of course
put the driver where you will...

I had to previously use

$ sysman io set exclude=(dkb0,dkb1,...)
to prevent these devices from being autoconfigured for dkdriver
of course.
Eric Dittman wrote:
[snip]