16 Oct
2005
16 Oct
'05
10:45 a.m.
On Oct 17 2005, 0:39, Ethan Dicks wrote:
My hard-drive MINC uses a cable like Ethan described. That is, a
cylindrical cable with a Berg socket on one end (which, in that machine,
plugs into an RLV11) and an RL-type plug on the other, which plugs into
one of the 2 RL01s in the cabinet. There's a normal RL-RL cable linking
them, and a terminator, of course.
COme to think of it, I think my RL8A came with that sort of cable.
But they're electrically the same, you can use either.
-tony
On 10/16/05, Pete Turnbull <pete at
dunnington.plus.com> wrote:
The RLV12 comes with a cabinet kit as I described. Sounds like yours
is unusual. I suppose it's possible, even likely, that DEC didn't do
that for the RL8A, but they certainly made cabinet kits consisting of a
short ribbon cable with a Berg connector and transition connector on a
plate for RL11, RLV11, and RLV12. RL01 and RL02 cables have those funny connectors
at both ends.
Drive-to-drive cables certainly all do, and _most_ interface-to-drive
cables do, but some do not.
In particular, I have seen a 40-pin-Berg-to-RL-drive cable (no ribbon
cable whatsoever)
in two situations; with an RLV12 in a MicroVAX-II, and my own RL8A.