> Avoid the RD53 at all costs... it is the most problematic of
> the RD series drives. The RD54 in my experience is the most
> reliable, and I have a number of them in machines still working.
I never had enough RD53s to form a statistically valid opinion.
Never had a problem with RD54s (and I guess I had maybe
a dozen running in the lab).
> Yes, going to SCSI would be nice, but you can't put one in
> your VAXstation 2000...
Unless you use Wolfgang Moeller's modified ROMs - then I believe
that SCSI will work. (IIRC the modified VS/UV2K ROMs also
incoroporate the >1GB fix ... but it's been a long time since
I looked).
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini_at_iee.org
Received on Tue Mar 04 2003 - 13:43:00 GMT