31 Jan
2011
31 Jan
'11
4:16 p.m.
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Michael Thompson
<michael.99.thompson at gmail.com> wrote:
I pulled two RA70 disks from a pair of VAX-3500s that
I have. By some
miracle both drives spin up and go ready when the Operator Control
Panel is connected. I was thinking that one of these drives would work
nicely with the UDA50 disk controller in the 11/44 until I can get the
RA81s sorted out.
These drives are supposed to work with the Operator Control Panel.
There is a button on the back of the drive that says Unit Number
Accept. I pushed the button both before and after power up, but the
RA70 does not spin up.
Anyone have a manual for this drive or know how to get it work without
connecting an OCP?
I have used RA7x drives with a KDA50 (M7164 / M7165) without an OCP
attached to the drives. It has been a while now. I don't remember
there being anything tricky about getting it to work. I was probably
using either an RA72 or RA73. I'll have to look and see if I have an
RA70 to try.
I don't remember if I ever found any RA7x drive manuals other than
this one on the net, which doesn't have all that much useful
information:
RA7x/SA7x Pocket Reference Guide, Order Number EK-RSA7X-PG-002
-Glen