27 Sep
2015
27 Sep
'15
9:42 p.m.
On 9/27/2015 2:39 PM, Charles wrote:
I just acquired an RX01 drive (and an RX8E) for my 8/A
system. It wasn't
too painful to get it going, as the RX8E had "only" one bad IC that was
easy to find and I had a spare. Details on the DEC forum at
vintage-computer.com. Then the RX01 started audibly working, but with
new-old-stock 3M diskettes, showed 22 seek errors on the first pass to
Drive 0, finding good headers with correct CRC but the wrong ones a
track or two away. That cleared up promptly and 25 successive passes had
no errors on either drive. So now I have two floppies with 487 free
blocks each, built in OS/8 ;)
However, the drive came only with the inner slides (that attach to the
chassis), but not the outer rails that bolt to the rack.
So I'm looking for either a complete pair of RX slides, or just the
outer ones that I need. If they can't be had, I may have to find a
heavy-duty rack shelf and set the drive on it. That would be
inconvenient to service the drive but it should not need attention often.
Can anyone help me find some? Thanks.
-Charles
I may have some - I have quite a few different slides. However I
suggest that you 1) measure them (height and length) and 2) take a
photo. Chassis slides had/have a way of getting swapped between units,
so it would be helpful to see exactly what you have so I can compare
them to my RX units and their slides first.
JRJ