On Jan 3, 2014, at 12:09 , Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
That would be one I would enjoy testing. I spun a lot
of RL drives
over the years, and while I always found them reliable, it takes
up a lot of space to put together a moderate amount of storage
(like the time I installed 2.9BSD on my 11/24. about 5 years
before Linux appeared - I had to add a second RL02 to have
enough room to rebuild the kernel).
I'm just getting started in DEC stuff in general and RL02 drives in particular.
I'm putting together a PDP-11/44 system, and I hope to try running both RT11 and BSD
on it. Would a two-drive system be sufficient, or would I need more storage space? I have
four RL02 drives in unknown condition, but I was only planning to rack up two of them with
the PDP-11/44 and a Kennedy 9610 9-track tape drive.
My PDP-11/44 pile came with an RL11 board and the cable from it to the first RL02 drive.
It doesn't have a bulkhead fitting; it just goes from the controller directly to the
connector that plugs into the back of an RL02 drive. I haven't looked at the cable
carefully yet, but I can examine, measure and photograph it if that would be helpful to
anybody else in this thread.
BTW, I am looking for drive ID lenses for my RL02 drives. I need a "1" and a
"2", and I could either buy them outright or trade "0" lenses for
them. My RL02 pile came with three "0" lenses and a "3".
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