> Ok so I just picked up two very cool things for the House of VAX. They are 
> both DSSI to SCSI controllers.

For the House de VAXentoyz, it is always marvelous!

Yeah, very cool.  I would almost give me eye teeth, as the ol man was want
to say, for some (or even one) of those dssi-scsi storageworks modules.

> One was made by DEC and plugs into a Storage works storage shelf! That one 
> is so cool. Turn a storage shelf into a DSSI shelf. Its very weird to see 
> the RZ29's in the shelf with labels DIA240, DIA250, etc.

That is the critter.  If you ever want to part with it....holler.
I sense you will use that for 4000/xxx dssi to scsi VAXenspeak?

> I also picked up three storage works shelves, two with redundant supplies 
> and one with only one supply. Generally they have 4, 5, and 3, RZ29's in 
> them. The one with 4 has the DSSI converter in the other end. I've got to 
> get pictures of these up on the web site soon, they are really neat.

I run a few of those storage works shelves on my alphas.  It is very nice
to be able to mount up 7 drives on a small machine, externally, for some
nice play space.

Watch the jumpers inside behind the fans.  There are several ways to
set them.  If you want to use them generically, and as a single bus,
you need to check them.  See the ba350ugc.pdf manual.

Watch the internal slide in connectors.  I have had one go bad on me,
for no good reason, so have to settle for 6 drives on that one...(:+{{...

Good Luck.

Bob