5 Apr
2002
5 Apr
'02
7:56 a.m.
On April 5, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Weird...I dunno about the RM03, but I ran an RM02 on a Dataram Qbus
SMD controller (I don't recall the model number) many years ago in an
11/73. It worked fine.
I thought the only big difference between the RM02 and the RM03 was
the spindle speed, though.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire "I thought it would go quickly,
St. Petersburg, FL that rubberized bottom..." -Sridhar
A.K.A. CDC
9762 with a Massbus<->SMD adapter in the bottom....
Sort of. I worked for a DEC reseller in the summer of 1998. He
picked up a couple of RM03s cheap and wanted to hook them to one
of our PDP-11s through some Emulex or similar SMD interface. The
idea was to pull the cables out of the adapter, run them into the
Emulex card, and turn an RM03 back into a 9762.
The quick answer was we were unable to make it work. We even borrowed
some cards from a real 9762 and swapped them into the card cage in the
RM03 (the one near the positioner magnet). It didn't help.
DEC must have made some change outside of ECOs to the cards that
made the drive only work with their Massbus converter.