--- Chris Muller <chris.muller_at_mullermedia.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been asked to try to get some data (to CD) from some number of RK05
> and/or RK07 packs. I have an old 11/73 floating around, but I believe
the
> RK's were only for Unibus, so the drives alone wouldn't help me.
As mentioned in another reply of this thread (I read from new to old),
there is an RKV11D for the RK05s. AFAIK, though, there is only the
RK611 controller for the RK07 drives - Unibus - in its own 9-slot
backplane. I've seen them in their own enclosure, and alongside
a DD11-DC in a full-sized BA-11. I used to have one, but it, the
four RK07 drives (2 working, 2 spares) and the forty-some disk packs
did not survive the closing of my employer 9 years ago.
I got lots of stuff, but those had to be left behind. :-(
> My contact is unaware of the O/S, but I resume its got to be RT or RSX.
Knowing the filesystem will help. Plus, unless you have reason to
exclude it off the bat, it could be RSTS as well. If I had to guess
based solely on the media, I'd think that RK05 suggests RT-11 or
RSX, and RK07s suggest RSX or RSTS. It's not that you couldn't use
RT-11 with RK07 drives; it's that the drives were so large (28MB) and
so expensive that it was a not-so-common configuration.
> Is there anyone in or near NYC that can handle these? If you can get the
> files to a tape via COPY, I think we can take it from there.
I'm in Ohio and my RKV11D is in Canada.
-ethan
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Received on Wed Oct 02 2002 - 15:50:01 BST