Kevin,

About a year and a half ago, I found a site on the web advertising 
used DEC stuff, and I bought two of those cables for $25 each.  I've
got the receipts and stuff at work.  I think I advertised the place 
to this lists at the time, but that post is probably hard to find.

Doug


On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Chuck McManis wrote:

> Ebay generally will have them for less than $500, look for the two diagonal 
> screw knobs as your clue that it is what you want. For the 3300 the one you 
> want will have a right angle connector on one end and a straight-in 
> connector on the other. Many DSSI-DSSI cables are right angle to right 
> angle (which you could use but it looks weird on the storageworks shelf.
> 
> I haven't tried a 68pin SCSI cable, I don't believe the connectors are 
> actually compatible. But would love to be proven wrong on this.
> 
> Also to run NetBSD on the 3300 you will want to get your hands on a KFQSA 
> card, this talks MSCP on the Q-bus (supported) and DSSI to the drives. 
> NetBSD doesn't yet support the on-board DSSI interfaces.
> 
> --Chuck
> 
> At 11:09 AM 3/7/03 -0500, Kevin D. Ogden wrote:
> >Hi, I have a MV3300 w/ HSD05 in a Storageworks shelf.  I have a question
> >that's not directly NetBSD related, the install will come later once the
> >hardware is running.  Where can I get an external DSSI cable for less than
> >$500?!  Will a 68-pin SCSI cable work?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Kevin D. Ogden
>