On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 13:58, Jay West wrote:
> I'm finally starting to look at my options for putting together some of my
> DEC gear into complete refurbed systems. I was thinking of using an RA81
> drive with my 11/45. However, best as I can eyeball it, the RA81 drive won't
> fit into the H960 rack depth-wise (at least, with a proper back door on it
> like mine has - and I want it to be able to close). The RA81 drives I have
> are in a tall white corp cabinet, except two are in another H960 rack (which
> has no back door). From looking at those two, I don't think a back door (on
> my other 960 rack) would close (the two RA81's in the current 960 without
> the back door looks like - ummm an amateur job).
>
> Can someone confirm or deny, before I start going to the grief of racking
> heavy drives & such?
You just need the right sort of back door :-)
When I used to manage a "large" VAXcluster with 15 or so RA81s they were
mounted in H960 racks but the back doors were U shaped (when looked at
from above) to allow extra length for the RA81s.
Ah, the good old days....
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Received on Mon Jan 05 2004 - 18:59:45 GMT