H960 rack question - ra81, 11/45 etc.

From: Christian Corti <Christian.Corti_at_studserv.uni-stuttgart.de>
Date: Tue Jan 6 04:00:22 2004

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
[RA8x]
> Not only do they not fit, they also die quickly; try to locate
> some RA9x or RA7x drives instead.

It's true, they don't fit. I have a RA80 in such a rack. But I can't
confirm they die quickly. This RA80 drive (actually I have two from the
same source) was in permanent use 24/7 from 1982 until Nov. 2000. Now it
is hooked to a 11/34 and used as system disk for 2.9BSD. And no problems
so far.

Christian
Received on Tue Jan 06 2004 - 04:00:22 GMT