10 Nov
2001
10 Nov
'01
3:51 a.m.
On November 10, jkunz(a)unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:
Ahh, you metric folk! ;)
The M2322K and family are indeed standard 8" form factor drives.
They're not called "Eagles" though, as far as I'm aware. I really
like those drives. Take an M2322K (or the larger M2372K/M2382K
models), stick it on an Emulex QD32 or QD33 controller, stick it in a
QBUS VAX...Nice! :-)
An interesting note...The HDA of an Eagle or Super Eagle drive is a
big aluminum casting that, to me, very much resembles the engine of a
Volkswagen. ;)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
Huh?
14" and 8" Eagles? Every Eagle I've ever seen has been a 10"
platter drive. Are there Eagles other than the M2351 and M2361?
Hmm. The Eagles
may be 10". I 've not seen that much of the big Eagles
from inside and I never measured them. (Sorry. I am an european and I am
not that used to that wired inch measurement. ;-) ) For the 8" drives:
I know very well that they exist and that they are 8". AFAIK they are
called Eagle too or Super Eagle. M-number? Hmm? M2223K? M2322K? 
10 Nov
10 Nov
7:38 a.m.
On 10 Nov, Dave McGuire wrote:
Ahh, you metric folk! ;)
;-)
The M2322K and family are indeed standard 8"
form factor drives.
They're not called "Eagles" though, as far as I'm aware.
Uuups.
Sorry. I thought that Eagle and Super Eagle where names for
product lines, not for two specific drives.
I really like those drives.
The (Super) Eagle
or the later 8" drives? In the case of the 8" drives
you are the first person that I hear talking nice words about that
drives. The most words I heared about the 8" drives are like: "Reformat
them at least once a year, or you will loose your data."
Take an M2322K (or the larger M2372K/M2382K
models), stick it on an Emulex QD32 or QD33 controller, stick it in a
QBUS VAX...Nice! :-)
I know. My first QBus disk system was a QD33 with two 9"
D2363 drives
from NEC. Very impressive. The first time I simply
puted one drive on
top of the BA123. When the drive begun to move its heads, the
machine
(around 100kg with the drive!) begun to shake. A big smile run acros my
face when I noticed that. Not to forget that incredible sound! :-)
Meanwhile I got my hands on a 1G 5.25" Seagate and a 340MB Hitachi SMD
disk, two ESDI controlers and lots of ESDI disks, several RQDX3 with
some RD53 and RD54 (But the RD54 will be used in the Symbolics of a
friend, hallo Hans), a KFQSA with DSSI disks and last but not least an
MSCP emulating SCSI adapter. So my QBus VAXen and the PDP11/73 are well
equiped with disks. The only thing that I am still missing is some SDI
stuff. ;-)
--
tschuess,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz
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