What's bizarre about it? It was fairly standard - I have NEC drives that use that
carrier, too.
The interface is fairly vanilla SCSI. The drive itself is different than most modern
drives in that it was 512 byte sectors instead of 2048. -- Ian
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Subject: Re: Wanted: DEC RRD50 CD-ROM Manuals
On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Tom Gardner wrote:
Anyone have a copy of or know the location of the DEC
RRD50 maintenance
manual, specification, etc.? I'm interested in the interface for historical
curiosity only.
Is that the one that used a bizarre proprietary plastic carrier for the
disk?
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