RD45 question

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Fri Apr 21 00:46:13 2000

On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Jerome Fine wrote:

> >Don Maslin wrote:
>
> > > I know this has been discussed before, but I can't find the info. I just
> > > aquired a Maxtor 2190 disk drive that I want to convert into a DEC RD54. I
> > > know about formatting it under XXDP, but I remember that a jumper had to be
> > > changed on the drive. Can anyone help me out here?
> > You need to reset the jumper to DS3.
>
> Jerome Fine replies:
>
> In a BA123 box, all the drives are set to DS3 and the I/O distribution board
> in slot 13 manages the rest. But, if the RD54 is the second drive in a BA23
> box (rare but possible in a 6 switch front panel), then you must use DS4.

I appreciate that, but since his statement was that he had acquired a
Maxtor 2190 that he wanted to *convert* into a RD54 it seems a
reasonable presumption that it would be set for DS1 or DS2 and would
need to be reset. In formatting a 2190 on my MicroVAX 2000, that is all
that I had to do. T 70 recognized it immediately, and it was duck soup
from there on.

> This arrangement was VERY FIRMLY impressed on my memory one day
> about 10 years ago when I had just done a format of an RD52. Just to
> be careful, I removed the first RD52 drive before I did the format for the
> second drive. After it was done, I put the first RD52 back into the system, but
> forgot to set the second drive to DS4. I wound up with both RD52 drives
> requiring a format - and lost all the files from the first RD52.

That would certainly ruin your whole day!

                                                 - don
 
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Jerome Fine
>
>
Received on Fri Apr 21 2000 - 00:46:13 BST