On Thu, 24 May 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:
> It's useless without the other board, and they're both useless if
> you don't want to run RA-series disks. Contrary to popular belief,
> not all RA-series disks are huge (14" platters) and power hungry. I
> have a stack of 1GB 5.25" RA73 disks that are rather nice.
>
True, but another thing to remember is that the KDA-50 itself is a
power hog. It will not work just stuffed into an existing BA23 (or
even a BA123, I think). The only one I have running is in a sepparate
box with it's own power supply. And yes, I tried putting one in a
MVAX-II in a BA23 before I knew this and while it did no permanent
damage, it definitely didn't work and kept the box from even starting.
Boy could I use some of those disks, though. I have RA80's, RA81's
and Fuji Eagles. I run them on both of my Ultrix machines, a VAX and
a PDP-11.
bill
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Received on Fri May 25 2001 - 08:46:34 BST