Microvax RD54 disks

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From: Rainer Malzbender
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1990 23:57

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We are about to upgrade our two RD53's on our aging Microvax by adding an
RD54. Midwest Micro sells a Maxtor clone for $1199. Question: what kind of
disk is the RD54 really ? Our RD53's seem to be Micropolis 1325's; is the
RD54 something like a Micropolis 1355 ? We want to upgrade as cheaply as
possible. I know there would be a formatting step involved with third-party
drives, but the local computer people can do that for us. General question:
is the interface used on RD53/54's standard ESDI ? If so, what kind of ESDI
disks can I throw on there that the controller and VMS will support ?
Thanks for the help, please email reponses rather than post.

Rainer M. Malzbender        rainer@hibachi.colorado.edu        (303)492-6829
Dept. of Physics            malzbender@opus.vaxf.colorado.edu
U. of Colorado, Boulder     No damn Maxwell's equations T-shirts, please.

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