On 10 Nov, Dave McGuire wrote:
> Ahh, you metric folk! ;)
;-)
> The M2322K and family are indeed standard 8" form factor drives.
> They're not called "Eagles" though, as far as I'm aware.
Uuups. Sorry. I thought that Eagle and Super Eagle where names for
product lines, not for two specific drives.
> I really like those drives.
The (Super) Eagle or the later 8" drives? In the case of the 8" drives
you are the first person that I hear talking nice words about that
drives. The most words I heared about the 8" drives are like: "Reformat
them at least once a year, or you will loose your data."
> Take an M2322K (or the larger M2372K/M2382K
> models), stick it on an Emulex QD32 or QD33 controller, stick it in a
> QBUS VAX...Nice! :-)
I know. My first QBus disk system was a QD33 with two 9" D2363 drives
from NEC. Very impressive. The first time I simply puted one drive on
top of the BA123. When the drive begun to move its heads, the machine
(around 100kg with the drive!) begun to shake. A big smile run acros my
face when I noticed that. Not to forget that incredible sound! :-)
Meanwhile I got my hands on a 1G 5.25" Seagate and a 340MB Hitachi SMD
disk, two ESDI controlers and lots of ESDI disks, several RQDX3 with
some RD53 and RD54 (But the RD54 will be used in the Symbolics of a
friend, hallo Hans), a KFQSA with DSSI disks and last but not least an
MSCP emulating SCSI adapter. So my QBus VAXen and the PDP11/73 are well
equiped with disks. The only thing that I am still missing is some SDI
stuff. ;-)
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tschuess,
Jochen
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Received on Sat Nov 10 2001 - 15:38:25 GMT