10 Mar
2010
10 Mar
'10
10:39 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
I think it would be useful to include the RD51 and
RD52 in the list of
supported drives. ?I believe it is MicroRSTS/E which expects something like
an RD51 or RD52 for a system disk.
And perhaps Venix and POS might not handle RD32s and RD53s? What
about MicroVMS 1.0? For that matter, I think that might bring into
question RQDX1 vs RQDX3 compatibility. It's been long enough that I'm
a bit fuzzy on the differences from an OS driver standpoint (I
remember well enough the differences in drive support and low-level
formats).
I would not consider lack of RD51 and RD52 support to be a
deal-breaker, but if one is going to make a generic MSCP Q-bus SSD
controller, one might as well permit 5MB and 10MB slices as well as
73MB and 154MB slices (since at the OS level, it eventually boils down
(mostly) to disks of N-blocks-long).
At $200, I'd consider one. At a lower price, I'd consider multiples.
-ethan