I wonder, does
anyone know what were the highest capacity ESDI hard disks
made?
Not sure.
ISTR, hearing about 1.8GB ones.
And last but
not least, where can I find such drives?
Dunno, but I'd love to find some largish ESDI drives now... I just
got a QD21. I have some Micropoliz 1355 drives that came out of
old Sun 3 installations that were attached to some Emulex SCSI<->ESDI
bridges. They are about the same capacity as an RD54 (~150MB), so
for me, anything larger would be of interest. I'd be happy with 200MB
or larger to use with 2.11 BSD.
I hate to say this, but I suspect it might actually be easier to find a cheap Q-Bus SCSI
controller at this point. Granted it takes some luck, but I've not found a ESDI drive
in several years. I'll admit I'm not *looking*, but at the same time I'd
probably pick up a large ESDI drive if I found one.
I wouldn't mind having a couple decent sized ESDI drives myself, though I'd use
them on a MicroVAX. I save my SCSI controllers for my PDP-11's!
Zane
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