24 Feb
2003
24 Feb
'03
1:41 a.m.
Hello Gene,
Even though RD-5x fit in there fine, what is probably an inexpensive
but more reliable solution than the RD-5x is to go with 5.25" FH
ESDI drives as some other "personal users" have done. They
come in larger storage capacities than the RD-5x drives too.
Pick up a Sigma SCD-RQD11/EC when it shows up on eBay
for around $35 to $50 ( or even less these days? ), and ask
Mark Green about an ESDI drive. He got all four ( some of them
around 600 Mb ) that I had a couple of years ago for what would
have averaged out to $10 each ( plus shipping ).
Best Regards
At 06:57 AM 2/24/03 -0800, you wrote:
struggling
That's just amazing. I never knew the demand for
those things was that
high. I wish the guy that was doing the IDE controllers had entered
production. :)
I think a lot of people, "personal users" too, are getting tired of with RD-5x drive unreliability, and/or want the
larger storage capacities
they could obtain with SCSI
Well I've got a KDA-50 board set so I'm not _totally_ out in the cold, but
it sure would be nice to use a drive that a) wasn't 150lbs (RA81) and b)
wasn't 3 feet long (RA92). Neither of which fit in the BA123(? nice
roll-around chassis, card cage is on the right side) enclosures that my 2
MicroVAXen use.
g.