> > I wonder, does anyone know what were the highest capacity ESDI hard disks
> > made?
>
>Not sure.
ISTR, hearing about 1.8GB ones.
> > And last but not least, where can I find such drives?
>
>Dunno, but I'd love to find some largish ESDI drives now... I just
>got a QD21. I have some Micropoliz 1355 drives that came out of
>old Sun 3 installations that were attached to some Emulex SCSI<->ESDI
>bridges. They are about the same capacity as an RD54 (~150MB), so
>for me, anything larger would be of interest. I'd be happy with 200MB
>or larger to use with 2.11 BSD.
I hate to say this, but I suspect it might actually be easier to find a cheap Q-Bus SCSI controller at this point. Granted it takes some luck, but I've not found a ESDI drive in several years. I'll admit I'm not *looking*, but at the same time I'd probably pick up a large ESDI drive if I found one.
I wouldn't mind having a couple decent sized ESDI drives myself, though I'd use them on a MicroVAX. I save my SCSI controllers for my PDP-11's!
Zane
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Received on Sat Jul 05 2003 - 18:47:01 BST