85mb Micropolis in a Microvax II? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

23 Nov 1998

Thanks for the info.  I thought it was because of the power requirements on
spin-up of the disks since they are not sequenced.
It is nice to know that it does work reliably however for the rare times I
might want to.
Thanks
Dan

...
 < Two full-height hard drives in a single BA23 was
never officially suppor
< (at least for the various microPDP-11 configurations), because
< they refused to support a base box sold without removable media.

Correct.  The group in DEC that balked at that was Field Service as a
microvax1/II was "...not adaquately diagnosable without removable media".
Marketing VIA CSSE was forced to consider that an unsupportable
configuration though electronically solid and desireable if used for
LAVC member or with external removable media.

Allison