4 Aug
2005
4 Aug
'05
4:27 p.m.
The RK05 uses a DEC backplane
Althoguh if you get a real Diablo cable, it has the connector mounted on
a little PCB, with a trasnistion connector and then a length of ribbon
cable on that. If you take off one end, the wires are in almost the right
ordser to solder to a DEC 'unibus' cable board to link to the RK11-C or
whatever. I wonder why :-)
block internally, with genuine Unibus cables
(RK11D) or a DEC-style
paddle connector and 40-pin ribbon cables (RKV11D, RK8E).
_Electrically_ the Diablo 30 should be the same as a real RK05, but
mechanically, the cables are entirely different.
Yeah that was an unplesant surprise!
BTW I found out that the d30 uses an external power supply. Does anyone
have the specs or pinout for it or even an extra PSU?
I thought the manuals were on bitsavers. The PSU pinout should be in
there. There were 2 PSUs from Diablo, one using a transsitorised
regulator, the other using a ferroresonant trasnformer. DEC also made
their own PSU (H734 or something) for these drives.
Joe
>
>The drive chain also needs to be terminated. In the case of an RK05,
>it's an M930 Unibus terminator in the last drive. Not sure about a
>Diablo 30, unless you hang a real M930 off of one of those cable
The Diablo terminator is a PCB stuffed with resistors soldered to the
connector. There's a +5V pin on the connector to power the terminator, of
course. I have _one_ of them, I also have 2 drives and the
interconnecting cables, so it's not up for grabs.
-tony