On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> --- "Clint Wolff (VAX collector)" <vaxman_at_qwest.net> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > That is exactly the info I needed... Do you know if a M8061 (RL01/RL02
> > controller w/22 bit addressing) will work in a uVAX II?
>
> I have used an RLV12 in a uVAX-II (in a BA-23 upgraded by DEC from uVAX-I
> to uVAX-II, just for painful accuracy). It's one of my favorite ways of
> migrating smallish amounts of data between DEC boxes not on the same
> wires (site-to-site moves), at least it was back in the days of 1200 baud
> dial-up. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a VW Beetle with a backseat
> full of 10Mb removable cartridges.
Aha! Beetle-Net - the prior century's quantum improvement on
Sneaker-Net.
> > I have a number of RL02s that I want to archive, but I don't want to
> > load them into an unknown drive hooked to a system of unknown status
> > running software I don't know... If I can test the drives out using
> > my uVAX, and archive the software, I can create a new disk pack and
> > use it it test the PDP-11/23+...
>
> Good plan. Eventually, I plan to do something similar. My problem
> at the moment is a lack of happy RD54s in my BA123. I'm about to
> stick a KDA-50 in that puppy and fire up my MBA ESDI<->SDI box that
> happens to have a couple of 1.2Gb 5.25" disks in it. If that doesn't
> do it, there's an RA-81 in the same rack as the MBA box, but I'd rather
> not heat my house with it.
>
> -ethan
>
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Received on Thu Jan 25 2001 - 14:40:11 GMT