Paul,
Sent this to the list. as it's generally useful.
<I think I've got an old rx33-but how would I plug it in?
Vs2000? there is a 60-70 pin header that takes a decunique cable the breaks
it down the floppy and mfm hard disks.
MVII can use a PC floppy cable to the first non twist cable. also It can
use PC MFM HD cables to the drive.
<And, what about non-DEC mfm drives-- can the hardware read them, but not VM
dec name COMMON NAME size
RD51 st412 10mb
RD52 quantum q540 ~35mb
RD53 micropolus 1325 ~71mb
RD54 maxtor-2190 ~159mb
RD31 ST225 ~20mb
RD32 St251 ~40mb
This is important to dec software, and booting.
Any other drive with the same number heads, cylinders, and tracks can be
used as it will map to a known(to the rom) drive. Other drives can be used
if the OS knows it and can boot from the known hard drive, floppy or net via
mop boot.
Allison
Received on Fri Aug 08 1997 - 23:05:37 BST