Re: bad144 - how useful still? Because it's annoyingly ubiquitous.

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On May 31, 2026, at 6:42 PM, Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost> wrote:
> 
>    Date:        Sun, 31 May 2026 17:36:10 -0400
>    From:        Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>
>    Message-ID:  <CE2059E8-FDE2-4C4C-B818-764C0620C846%me.com@localhost>
> 
>  | (Actual grey-beards, please chime in!)
> 
> I never even considered moving a (non scsi) drive between a VAX (or Alpha)
> and a Sun. VAXen (etc) had huge (physically, not capacity so much) drives
> in large cabinets, Suns had smaller drives in much smaller boxes.   They
> just didn't seem likely to want to move around (whether or not they could).

That’s kind of what I figured; even though Fujitsu Eagles were used on both types of systems, no one was all that interested in using a drive from a VAX on a 3/260.

(FWIW, all of my exposure to these things was on Sun3 servers [UUCP relay, baby!] and Sequent machines using Zeke’s Disk Controller.)

-- thorpej