I have a few RK11-C backplanes and a RK03 if anyone is interested. Feel
free to contact me offlist.
Thanks, Paul
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 12:15 AM, tony duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
wrote:
Can anyone shed a light on this?
http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-616158449-diablo-series-unidade-de-d…
It appears to be a standard Diablo model 30 disk drive. This is a front
loading hard disk, similar
to an RK05, in fact it was used on the PDP11 with the RK11-C (but not
RK11-D [1]) controller.
There are 2 versions, low and high density, which DEC badged as the RK02
and RK03. The latter
is format-compatible with the RK05, the former (which is much less useful)
has half the bit
rate. It needs an external +/-15V power supply (I can't remember if it
needs +5V too).
[1] It uses 1-of-n selects, not the binary select scheme used by the
RK11-D. It is possible
to kludge in a decoder to get the high density model working on an RK11D.
AFAIK the
RK11-C supports both data rates, the RK11-D doesn't, so the low density
version is pretty
much RK11-C only.
One oddity is the head positioner. It's a permanent magnet commutator type
motor
with a rack and pinion mechanism.
-tony