24 Feb
2003
24 Feb
'03
2:55 a.m.
True, the various ESDI disks are proving to be a fine and reliable
replacement for the RD drives, using the same form factor. My MV4
(in a BA123) has three Hitachi drives, 680MB each, and are emulated
as RA82's. Nice, reliable and _fast_ !
These drives, and the controllers (Sigma, ADC, Emulex, Dilog) are
real cheap now.
--f
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Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 4:38 PM
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Subject: Re: QBUS SCSI card...
Hello Gene,
Even though RD-5x fit in there fine, what is probably an inexpensive
but more reliable solution than the RD-5x is to go with 5.25" FH
ESDI drives as some other "personal users" have done. They
come in larger storage capacities than the RD-5x drives too.
Pick up a Sigma SCD-RQD11/EC when it shows up on eBay
for around $35 to $50 ( or even less these days? ), and ask
Mark Green about an ESDI drive. He got all four ( some of them
around 600 Mb ) that I had a couple of years ago for what would
have averaged out to $10 each ( plus shipping ).
Best Regards
At 06:57 AM 2/24/03 -0800, you wrote:
the cold,
but
> > That's just amazing. I never knew
the demand for
those things was that
> > high. I wish the guy that was doing
the IDE
controllers had entered
> > production. :)
>
> I think a lot of people, "personal users" too, are
getting tired
of
struggling
> with RD-5x drive unreliability, and/or want the larger
storage capacities
they
could obtain with SCSI
Well I've got a KDA-50 board set so I'm not _totally_ out in it sure would be nice to use a drive that a)
wasn't 150lbs
(RA81) and b)
wasn't 3 feet long (RA92). Neither of which
fit in the BA123(? nice
roll-around chassis, card cage is on the right side)
enclosures that my 2
>MicroVAXen use.
>
>g.