On Jul 25, 2024, at 5:59 AM, Christian Corti via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hello all,
we now have a RM03 drive, but are missing all the cables and the RH11 backplane, though I
have the cards.
Since the drive itself is a CDC 9762 I was wondering if I could ignore the Massbus
adapter in the drive cabinet and use the CDC as a "normal" SMD drive (at least
it uses the standard 60+26 pin cables).
There are no service manuals/schematics of the drive itself, so I can't look there.
And all I could find on the net were discussions of using the Massbus adapter for normal
SMD drives but in my case, I don't want Massbus at all.
Sure there are online manuals; look here
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/cdc/discs/ -- I see
9762 mentioned in the "smd" subdirectory and there is also an
"smd_interface_specs" subdirectory.
paul