... and all hungarian VAX clones had SMD disks, as no RA or RM disks were 
allowed to be sold here (Hungary - at the time way behind the "Iron 
Curtain"). Although most of the times this meant some Emulex, or cloned 
Emulex controller (SC21,31,41) hanging off the Unibus and not the SBI...

         Hamster

At 14:06 5/31/2002, Michael Thompson wrote:
>The Rhode Island Computer Museum has an 11/780 with an Emulex SC780 SMD
>controller and four Fujitsu Eagle SMD disks. The Emulex SMD controller
>emulates a Massbus disk controller.
>
>See: http://ricm.museum.com/collections/vax/11-780.html
>
>At 01:08 AM 5/31/02 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >On May 30, Lord Isildur wrote:
> >> smd? cool! i dont think ive heard of SMD disks on a vax before, i'd only
> >> ever heard of them in the sun world generally (though my lisp machine has
> >> one :-)
> >
> >  SMD used to be very popular in the VAX world.  Emulex and Dataram made
> >very good, very fast SMD controllers; I've used a lot of them.  Good
> >stuff.
> >
> >         -Dave
> >
> >--
> >Dave McGuire                       "Actually, I've found that I rarely wear
> >St. Petersburg, FL                    pants in Florida." -Sridhar
> >
> >
>
>Michael Thompson
>E-Mail: M_Thompson@IDS.net