4 Mar
2003
4 Mar
'03
5:26 p.m.
sorry i spoke...
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Antonio Carlini" <arcarlini(a)iee.org>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 12:39 PM
Subject: RE: DEC RD54 from Maxtor
Avoid the RD53
at all costs... it is the most problematic of
the RD series drives. The RD54 in my experience is the most
reliable, and I have a number of them in machines still working.
I never had enough RD53s to form a statistically valid opinion.
Never had a problem with RD54s (and I guess I had maybe
a dozen running in the lab).
Yes, going to SCSI would be nice, but you
can't put one in
your VAXstation 2000...
Unless you use Wolfgang Moeller's modified ROMs - then I believe
that SCSI will work. (IIRC the modified VS/UV2K ROMs also
incoroporate the >1GB fix ... but it's been a long time since
I looked).
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini(a)iee.org