Large ESDI Disks

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Sat Feb 2 07:32:53 2002

At 02:04 PM 1/02/2002 -0800, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> > Speaking of which, does anyone know where to get controllers and/or
> > drives to use ESDI on QBus based VAXen?
>
>No, but I recommend looking for Webster WQESD/4 controllers. They're a
>dream! Of course I'd more recommend them for a PDP-11, for a MicroVAX, and
>old ESDI controller should do.
>
>The reason I like WQESD/4 controllers is that they can partition the drive
>into multiple disks, and you can boot any partition under something like
>RT-11. Should even be able to do different OS's, but I've not tried it.

And of course, the major reason to like them is that they were Australian
designed and manufactured....

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