I recently acquired some old DEC equipment
that that two RRD40 drives with SCSI adapters.
I quickly replaced them with some real SCSI
CDROM drives.
Now, I enjoy classic equipment and like to
see it preserved, but I draw the line on
the RRD40 drives. They deserve to die.
However, there may be some people that may
actually want these oddball drives and
SCSI adapters, so if you want them, they
are yours. All I ask is that you pay for
shipping, and I really only want to ship
these in the US.
There are no caddies available, and if you
aren't familiar with the RRD40 drives they
don't use the standard caddies. Also, one
of the drives has a CD in it, and when I
booted the unit before removing the drives
the CD was labeled as an OpenVMS V7.1 doc
disk. However, I don't know if that is
accurate, since I didn't bother taking a
look at the contents. I also don't know
if the CD or drive will survive shipping
with the CD in place.
Also, the SCSI adapters are only for the
RRD40 drives and I've removed the three
ICs that are useful to me from each board.
So, if you want them let me know by Friday,
or I'll just trash them, without honor, and
without dignity.
Can you guess that I've had to install a
VMS upgrade with an RRD40 drive and had
to swap several CDs to load layered products
with only two caddies? I really, really,
really don't like RRD40 drives.
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Eric Dittman
dittman_at_dittman.net
Received on Mon Apr 23 2001 - 13:50:12 BST