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Article #5430Re: RM02 on MASSBUS advice wanted.
From: Craig McGregor
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1989 15:31
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1989 15:31
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In article <217@decus.com.au>, geremin@decus.com.au (Big John from MEGATRONICS) writes: > Hello World, I am about to connect up a RM03 disk, an RM05 disk and a RM02 > drive all on the same MASSBUS Controller on a PDP-1170 running RSTS v8.0. > > I realize that the RM02 was intended to operate on a RH11 controller on > the Unibus of smaller PDP-11s with a slower transfer rate. I have them on hand > and cant afford to get them converted. And I dont mind the slower transfer > rate. > > My question is: Does anyone know if there are any problems with this config.? > > Thanks in advance, John G. geremin@decus.com.au > -------------------------- We once moved an RM02 from a PDP-11/40 with RH11 to a VAX-11/750 with RH750 and RM80 and it WORKED!! I think that a jumper on the massbus board under the RM02 had to be moved to alter some timing thing. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Craig McGregor (Faculty of Architecture, University of NSW) ACSnet: craig@csdvx0.accu.csd.unsw.oz Phone: +61 2 697-4764 Fax: +61 2 662-2264 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!mulga!munnari.oz.au!otc!metro!basser!usage!csdvx0!craig From: craig@csdvx0.accu.csd.unsw.oz (Craig McGregor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,decus.rsts Subject: Re: RM02 on MASSBUS advice wanted. Message-ID: <1571@csdvx0.accu.csd.unsw.oz> Date: 7 Jun 89 15:31:51 GMT References: <217@decus.com.au> Organization: University of New South Wales, Australia Lines: 24