28 Nov
1999
28 Nov
'99
7:03 p.m.
Megan wrote:
Unless there is no equivalent... I've got the exact problem with the
DECsystem-10 I got earlier this year... it came with two RP06 drives.
They are 3-phase drives. We don't yet have three phase power (or a
close approximation of it), so cannot run the drives. Without the
drives, we cannot even load the microcode for the machine, so it is
a very large paper-weight.
I don't think you can hack the RP06 to run on single phase as you could do
on a VAX 6xxx.
I've been looking of a non-three-phase replacement
for the drives, but
we still would need three-phase to get the data off the disks I have.
If you come up with one please post on the list.
We have, however, been getting all the data off the
tapes so as not
to lose it.
It would be great if there was a massbus interface for a more recent
tape drive, and the same for a disk... it would be neat to be able to
have a DAT tape acting like a TU77 or something supported by the machine,
and a couple of SCSI or even IDE disks acting as RM03 or RP06 disks...
Like the QBUS, UNIBUS adapter to IDE drives; I'm gonna look at it since
all the RDxx on my PDPs are failing.
But you would still have the problem of getting the stuff out of the
original disks; but having a Massbus-2-SCSI adapter would be nice especially
to avoid the cost of RP06 or RM03 media.
Megan, if you ever think to through away your 10 ;-) because of lack of
three phase power, please tell me; I have a friend that works in a shipping
company (real ships) that can get me a very cheap price for one o those big
containers and now that I have an IBM 4381 I have access to a 50KVA line
8-))))))))))))))))))))
e.
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