Paul,
Sent this to the list. as it's generally useful.
<I think I've got an old rx33-but how would I plug it in?
Vs2000? there is a 60-70 pin header that takes a decunique cable the breaks
it down the floppy and mfm hard disks.
MVII can use a PC floppy cable to the first non twist cable. also It can
use PC MFM HD cables to the drive.
<And, what about non-DEC mfm drives-- can the hardware read them, but not VM
dec name COMMON NAME size
RD51 st412 10mb
RD52 quantum q540 ~35mb
RD53 micropolus 1325 ~71mb
RD54 maxtor-2190 ~159mb
RD31 ST225 ~20mb
RD32 St251 ~40mb
This is important to dec software, and booting.
Any other drive with the same number heads, cylinders, and tracks can be
used as it will map to a known(to the rom) drive. Other drives can be used
if the OS knows it and can boot from the known hard drive, floppy or net via
mop boot.
Allison