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Article #5575Microvax RD54 disks
From: Rainer Malzbender
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1990 00:00
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1990 00:00
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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. 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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!yale!think!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sunybcs!boulder!hibachi!rainer From: rainer@hibachi.colorado.edu (Rainer Malzbender) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Microvax RD54 disks Message-ID: <16552@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 5 Feb 90 00:00:16 GMT Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: rainer@hibachi.colorado.edu (Rainer Malzbender) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 17