MicroVax II question

From: John Allain <allain_at_panix.com>
Date: Mon Jan 5 22:30:11 2004

Fred may be talking about the RA74 (contrasts with the RZ74) here. -jea
RA's go to KDA50's doing SDI
RD's go to RQDX's doing MFM/RLL
RF's go to KFQSA's doing DSSI
RZ's go to KZQSA's doing SCSI
I believe some list members have attached the four disk types all to
a system at once and have succeeded, using a wide QBus cabinet.


>> I wanted to revive my MicroVax II (BA23 cabinet I think) and add
>> RZ74 (4GB drive) to it. I am writing number from memory, perhaps
>> I have made mistakes. Will this card on Ebay do the trick?
>>
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2775848822&category=1247&
rd=1
>> I believe this might be the easiest way to get SCSI support
>> on my machine, but perhaps this card is incompatible, or
>> drive is too big?

> Uhm... be *very* careful with connecting these drives, and the
> KDA50 controllers, to the BA23 power supply. Most of these
> will *not* be able to handle them together, since the KDA50
> controller (SDI to QBus) is a power-hungry monster.
> Other than that, the drive would work just fine on the VAX.
Received on Mon Jan 05 2004 - 22:30:11 GMT

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