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terry-...@glaver.org" <
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> On Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 5:31:07=E2=80=AFPM UTC-4, Johnny
Billquist wrote:
>> I`ve been reading the RM02/RM03 manuals, and I can`t find any=20
>> documentation on any backplane jumper for such a purpose. There are
>> jumpers for drive type and serial number, but that`s about it as far as
>> I can find.
> I assume you mean in the Massbus controller in the bottom of the drive.
> The actual drive logic cage has not very many not very big not very bright
> cards. As I recall, maybe 5" x 5". I modified a couple sets of drive cards
> to change the upper cylinder limit. I was subcontracting data recovery
> and they`d send me crashed-but-cleaned packs and tell me "don`t go past
> cylinder X" when doing the recovery.
The DCL ("DEC control logic") on an RP06 is about a dozen hex height boards in
a special card cage on the side. The little 5"x5" cards in the top of the
drive are Memorex (the OEM).
> I don`t know why DEC didn`t do Massbus disk strings the way they did
> Massbus tape strings - you can`t have multiple data transfers going at
> the same time on the Massbus anyway, and the Massbus supported
> per-drive things like "Seek Complete" already. I guess customers that
> cared about over-paying for drives just bought the CDC versions and
> 3rd-party controllers.
I don`t understand what you mean here. We had strings of up to 8 RP07 or RP06
drives on our DEC-20s.
> Massbus is weird. Somebody saw IBM 360 bus/tag cables and went
> "This would be a good idea - how can we make it bizarrely different?"
> Trivial example - the RP07 is logically an RM device, not RP. Surprised
> a bunch of early customers who tried adding one to a string of RP06
> drives.
Not sure I ever saw more than one RP06 on a DEC-20 with RP07s, since only one
was needed for the 11/40 front end. It wouldn`t make sense to daisychain the
big drives through that any way.
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