On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 05:45:31PM -0700, Doc Shipley wrote:
> Could be. I think these might have been the cans in a full-wide
> shelf, too. The bridge board is about 8" x 12", and sits above the PSU,
> with the ESDI drives sitting sideways in the enclosure in front of that.
Hmm... that size sounds different than the one I have - my memory is
a card that is square and about 8" on a side.
> >Can't verify now... give me a few months if you don't find any info.
>
> Awww, c'mon, Ethan! Just trot out to the garage and have a look!
A) It's in the basement
B) The basement is in Ohio
C) Ohio is 12,000 miles from here.
> I'm going to test the power and check them out, and then ASSume that
> if the drives are functional then it'll talk to a UDA50 or KDA50 without
> further ado. They're both clean, inside and out, but were stacked sort
> of willy-nilly on a cement floor when I found them. I don't know how
> tough those Maxtors are, or even yet whether they autopark on power-down.
I can't say for sure, but largish (capacity) 5.25" drives _should_ auto-park
(parking was an issue for transporting < 100MB MFM drives, but later units
usually got over it), and the beauty of MSCP is that you can just throw a
drive on a controller and there's no host-side configuration.
> If they work, it'll be a major improvement - power-wise, space-wise,
> volume-wise, and noise-wise - over the RA60s I'm running now. :)
Oh, yea. We had an RA60 at work, c. 1987. It was handy to be able to
change packs to change the OS, but in practice, we virtually never did
so. I received a short rack with a couple of RA60s in 2000, and haven't
had occasion to power them on yet (I'd rather focus my energy on putting
my RA70s to use - similar capacity, *much* less power).
For that matter, I wouldn't mind finding an RA72 or two... size without
the wallet-sucking motors.
-ethan
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