Applied Materials (AMAT) Varian 180XP

Solid State Disks Ltd

Dependable Data Storage Solutions

If you have an Applied Materials (AMAT) Varian 180XP ion implanter and its data storage device is starting to fail, we can help.

Note: Applied Materials acquired Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates Inc. in 2011.

Our CF2SCSI™ SCSIFlash™ drives are being using extensively within the semiconductor fabrication industry to replace legacy drives with either internal storage media (such as magnetic HDDs and SSDs) and/or which use removable media, such as magnetic tapes, optical disks (CD / DVD), floppy disks and solid-state memory cards.

The photos at the top of this page show the front and rear of our CF2SCSI™ SCSIFlash™ drive configured as a replacement for the Applied Materials (AMAT) HDD part number 0190-04852.

Our drive will emulate the behaviour of your legacy drive. This means your host system requires no changes and it will treat our drive as if it were the original part. In addition, you benefit from the high reliability, improved performance (such as fast and simplified memory erase for security) and reduced noise and power consumption that all come through switching to latest technology solid-state memory.

Recent emulations we’ve supplied include:

Seagate ST32155N 2.1GB capacity SCSI HDD
TEAC HC-1 120MB capacity 34-pin 3.5” IDC floppy disk drive

Both required BOSS E4.8 EPROM to be installed on the single board computer.

As mentioned, our CF2SCSI™ SCSIFlash™ drive can also be used to replace legacy drives that have removable media. Pictured below are our Ethernet-enabled replacements for AMAT part number 0660-01083 (an IDE floppy drive with IDC connector – middle photo) and AMAT part number 0660-01088 (a 50-pin SCSI floppy drive – pictured on the right). The front panels of the drives are identical.

Note, all our CF2SCSI™ SCSIFlash™ drives can be fitted with Ethernet ports (as per the above photo on the left) enabling them to be networked and used with our Windows (7 or higher) Flash2GUI software to access a variety of memory management tools.

Our drives have been tested and approved for full reset, CPU-only cold reset, full system reload, log & recipes transfer. Also, multiple configurations are possible – for example, user mode (recipes only) and admin mode (system files).

We have also prepared an installation guide that explains how replace the legacy drives with AMAT’s P5000, Endura and Centura systems. View here AMAT SCSIFLASH Retrofit Installation Instructions SSHD and SSFD

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What is CF2SCSI™ SCSIFlash™?

Our drive solves the growing and increasingly expensive problem of repairing or replacing ageing and failing SCSI-based 2.5-inch, 3.5-inch and 5.25-inch hard disk drives, magneto optical drives, quarter-inch tape drives and floppy disk drives on computer-based legacy equipment used in telecoms and other industries.

Combining proven SCSI drive architectures (SASI, SCSI-1, SCSI-2) with industry-standard, solid state Compact Flash (CF) card technology our CF to SCSI (CF2SCSI™) SCSIFlash™ is a solid-state drop-in replacement for any style of SCSI-based drive. Moreover, we can accommodate a variety of connector/interface types including, but not limited to, Pertec, QIC DAT, DLT 3490, Jazz, ZIP and Bernoulli.

Our drives are completely programmable, enabling the SCSI driver implementation nuances of the original equipment manufacturers to be fully emulated. This means you won’t have to make any changes to your system. Our drives are truly swap-in replacements.