OK, I got a MicroVAX II with a working RD-54 yesterday! I'm finally up and
running with VMS. It's one of the Big ones on casters, I think it's what's
called a BA-123 enclosure. I'm happy :^) There is something incredibly
cool about a system that has the ability to bill users based on CPU usage!
Along with this I got a LOT of other stuff. Amongst it all were several
RD-53's, which when I connect them up and try to boot the system from them
it gives me a ?54 RETRY. Does this mean that they are bad, or that they
are simply not bootable disks? Yes, I realize that the RD-53's are some of
the worst disks ever made, but I've got a lot around here right now.
I'm hoping to use one of the 53's in my VAXstation II/RC (I also got a full
fleged backplane yesterday to swap out with the resin filled one).
While I'm asking questions, I also got three non-DEC Hard Drives, I gather
they can be used with the MicroVAX's. One is a Imprimis Hard Drive Model
Number 94166-182, I've determined it's a ESDI 182Mb HD, I've got at least
one or two Plessey ESDI controllers that I picked up a couple weeks ago.
How do I go about formating these drives?
Zane
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