RX02 rx-01 heathkit 8 inch drive for H-11 ( lsi11 heath case drive diff?)

[COURYHOUSE at aol.com]

link  to    area? or topic? Please?
 
 
In a message dated 8/4/2016 12:00:45 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
dave.g4ugm at gmail.com writes:

There  was some discussion on this on the VCFED forums. Might be worth  a
read.

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From:  cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Richard
>  Cini
> Sent: 03 August 2016 11:51
> To: General Discussion:  On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
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>  Subject: Re: RX02 rx-01 heathkit 8 inch drive for H-11 ( lsi11 heath  
case
drive
> diff?)
> 
> Are you referring to having the  H-27 drive from Heath? I don't know for
sure
> because I've never  seen H27 docs, but the disk capacity is the same as 
the
> RX01 (256k)  and I think the interface was made deliberately incompatible,
> likely  at the behest of DEC. The version of RT-11 (called  HT-11)
supposedly
> used a different floppy device driver.
>  
> Again, this is based solely on what I've read from various places and  not
> direct experience (I have an H-11 with a SCSI controller; no  floppy; and
it runs
> RT-11 no problem).
> 
>  Rich
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> > On Aug 3,  2016, at 1:40 AM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > we have  a heath  h11  which is lsi 11   aka pdp   11/03
> >
> > the  drives  are not  rx o1  or  rx o2... but are they  and the
> > controller  comparable? with rx01  or  an rx02?
> >
> >  Thanks  Ed# at    smecc