Looking for RL02 cable and terminator

On 10/16/05, Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.plus.com> wrote: Drive-to-drive cables certainly all do, and _most_ interface-to-drive cables do, but some do not. In particular, I have seen a 40-pin-Berg-to-RL-drive cable (no ribbon cable whatsoever) in two situations; with an RLV12 in a MicroVAX-II, and my own RL8A. As long as I have had the controllers, I've had these two round cables that are about 2m long with one connector for the controller and one for the drive (no transition brackets, no anything between the controller and the first drive. I have never checked them to see if they are wired the same or not, but I wouldn't expect that they are (or if they are different that the difference amount to much). Of course, the printsets will be the best way to prove what an RL8A-to-drive cable needs to look like. The rig I think you are describing was typical of the RL11, for example, with a 40-pin ribbon cable to a black connector mounted in a mountable metal frame that accepted a drive-to-drive cable. That black transition connector, BTW, is identical to the transition connectors on the back of the disk drive units. Worst case, you can steal/borrow one from a scrap drive. I have never tried it, but I suspect that one could rig up a ribbon cable from the right board in the RL01/RL02 all the way to the controller. It would be a bit annoying to change around the drive arrangement, but if you only have one or two drives and they don't migrate, it might be a satisfactory setup to wire the drive and controller together over a single cable with no breaks. -ethan