On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Tony Duell wrote:
On 2003.06.03
18:31 Al Kossow wrote:
If anyone has a copy of the RL02 Technical
Manual, I'd like to borrow
it to add to the documentation archive.
Do you mean: "RL01/RL02 User
Guide" EK-RL012-UG-005?
(It contains installation, operation and detaild RL11 and RL8A
programming information.)
No, there's a separate technical manual, which includes fairly complete
circuit descriptions, PROM dumps, FRU replacement procedures, and so on.
It's a very useful document.
Is there a similar document for the RL8A, RL11, RLV11 or RLV12? I'd
really like to get enough documentation together to build a controller
that can work with other machines (maybe ISA bus, or more likely a
microcontroller with a nice sized chunk of cache ram and a serial port) to
facilitate getting data onto/off of RL02 disks. Really, I'm just looking
for the microcode PROM dump, or specs on the drive<->controller bus that
are detailed enough to contain a 'protocol description'.
Pat
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