> On May 31, 2026, at 6:42 PM, Robert Elz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Date: Sun, 31 May 2026 17:36:10 -0400
> From: Jason Thorpe <[email protected]>
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>
> | (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
