1 Feb
2006
1 Feb
'06
11:21 a.m.
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 13:51, Richard wrote:
A batch of these was just offered on ebay; I purchased
5 of the
DS8641N and 10 of the DS8640N. He still had 10 more of the DS8640N
in his auction. I want to make some sort of emulated drive interface
for my 11/03 so that I don't have to put wear and tear on the RL01
drives in order to play with it :-). Plus it would give me access to
much larger storage capacity by using some sort of emulator or
whatnot.
I'd suggest that you first look for an RQDX3; they usually show up
fairly cheaply - they support ST506 hard drives, and RX50 and RX33
floppy drives. You can get a Teac FD-55GFR, rejumper it to act like an
RX33, and an ST225/238R (same as a DEC RD31), and have a 1.2MB floppy
drive and a 25MB HDD hanging off of your box pretty cheaply.
On an 11/03, the only "tough" parts will be building the distribution
board that converts the cable from the RQDX3 to the drives, and getting
a boot PROM for MSCP boot (though you *can* use ODT to boot the
machine, it's just a bit painful, but not as painful as toggling in the
bootstrap :).
Actually, an RX33 is nearly 1/4 the (MB) size of an RL01, and probably
close to the same speed. :)
Pat
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