4 Apr
2005
4 Apr
'05
12:40 p.m.
On a side note, I have an RRD40 with RRD50 controller
for the uVAX II the COBOL is intended to be used on,
but I received it with no caddies. Sure wish DEC had
used the same caddies that everyone else in the industry
used, and not some proprietary junk. Anyone have leads
on caddies? If so, please reply off-list.
I don't think they are DEC-designed caddies: the RRD50 and
the later RRD40 are both (IIRC) Philips designs. The caddies
are Philips - they invented the technology (with others) so
I'm not sure you can label them proprietary. They were also
either the first or nearly the first to do something other
than a flip top (like the RRD50[1]). It's hard to follow
the herd when you are riding point ...
I've sent my last spare to another list member today.
Also, when I installed the RRD50, the system passes
boot-up diagnostics, but VMS now crashes on bootup. Any
pointers?
I'm pretty sure the KRQ50+RRD40 combo is supported (always
assuming you have not bodged a SCSI-RRD40 to work there :-)).
Unlike WXP, OpenVMS has plenty of crash diagnostic tools so
this could be debugged. But before going down that path,
I would carefully inspect your bus and make sure that you
are not missing some grant card in there or have committed
some other heinous sin.
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini at iee.org