13 Jun
2010
13 Jun
'10
5:28 p.m.
"Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
No, that will not help. But I agree that those drives are nice.
>I will
also try a different model of SCSI drive too - perhaps the
>Quantum Fireball is too much of a good thing (4200RPM 2.1GB); I have
>an old clunker of a Quantum ProDrive 80S (3600 RPM 80MB!)
Do you happen to have any DEC RZ2x HD's? I'd recommend giving those
a try. While RSTS/E 10.1 doesn't require these, it is possible that
the RQZX1 does, or the combination of the board and RSTS/E does. RSTS/E can be touchy. I was totally unable to install
DECnet/E from
4mm DAT using a TLZ06, even though I installed RSTS/E 10.1 that way.
On the other hand the install worked just fine using a TK50 and TKZ30
drive.
RSTS/E is sometimes very picky, which is sad. It absolutely requires
that some stuff be installed from a specific type of tape drive, that
write protection is on, or other weird requirements for things to succeed.
I think John Wilson documented that pretty good in his E11 manual.
Other PDP-11 OSes are more sensible. I don't know why DEC did things so
strange in this aspect for RSTS/E.
Personally I'm using a PDP-11/73, Viking QDT, a
50-pin 2GB Seagate
Barracuda SCSI HD, and a Plextor 8x Caddy CD-ROM drive to run 10.1.
Me, I'm using a CQD-220, five different SCSI disks, DAT, Exabyte, and
occasionally I've also had different CD-ROM drives in there as well. But
I've only run RSX and 2.11BSD on my hardware. (11/83, 11/84 and 11/93
systems). (Well, the 11/84 used a CDU-720, but anyway...)
Johnny