RK05 or RK07 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Oct 2002

On Oct 2, 13:55, Chris Muller wrote:
...

 I've been asked to try to get some data (to CD) from some number of RK05
 and/or RK07 packs. I have an old 11/73 floating around, but I believe the
 RK's were only for Unibus, so the drives alone wouldn't help me. My
contact
...
  is unaware of the O/S, but I resume its got to be RT
or RSX. (?) 
The QBus equivalent of an RK11 is an RKV11-D, which is a single quad board,
controlling up to eight RK05's.  They were moderately common on larger
11/03 and some 11/23 systems.

The RK06 and RK07 use an RK611 controller, which is a large multi-board
unit occupying two system units, usually in an expansion box.  There's no
QBus equivalent that I know of.  Emulex did make QBus boards that emulated
an RK611, or more accurately, emulated the whole RK711 subsystem using a
QBus SC02 controller and an SMD drive, but you couldn't connect a real
RK06/7 to one of those.

The OS could be RT or RSX, possibly RSTS or something more unusual like
MUMPS.  Even 7th Edition Unix has an RK driver.  I think RT-11 or RSX-11
would be most likely, though.

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