> The backplane is third-party, not DEC, and has integral
>termination (no terminator card per se.) It has 8 quad-height slots.
>
> 1A-B M8192YB 1C-D MTI MXV22 (RX11 clone)
> 2A-B MTI MLV11M HD cont. 2C-D ?? 306 BootRoms etc.
> 3A-B M8043 quad SLU (console) 3C-D blank
> 4A-B Camintonn MLV11-J 4x SLU 4C-D blank
> 5A-B blank 5C-D blank (was Pertec VRG-Q)
> 6A-B Camintonn 256KW MOS [4164] 6C-D blank
> 7A-B blank 7C-D blank
> 8A-B blank 8C-D blank
> Question: Is the RLV11 appropriate and if so, which slots do they
>go in?
Not appropriate - you have no CD slots at all in this backplane. It
looks like it's either a serpentine or zig-zag ABAB layout.
Is this a Sigma box/backplane, by any chance? If so, it probably
has a big yellow warning sticker inside telling you that if you plug
in anything that expects to use the CD slots for its own purposes,
you'll end up letting the magic smoke out (or something to that
effect.)
Move the cards to a more conventional DEC backplane and you
can probably use the RLV11 just fine. Alternatively you could
just go out and spend the bucks for a RLV12 (they were only about
$150 a few years back.)
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Received on Sat Apr 03 1999 - 16:50:39 BST