Re: Provide me information

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Scott Dorsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Actually, I was going to recommend an RQDX3 and some of the 67 Mb disks
>> that came with them (RD52, I want to say?).  The larger (RD53?) 200-some Mb
>> disks are a bit more rare.
>
>The 70MB drives are the RD53's, please don't recommend them to anyone. 
>They're horridly unreliable.  The RD54's are about 154MB and much better
>drives, however, if you look long and hard you can probably get a ESDI or
>SCSI controller for what a RD54 goes for these days.

The RD53 is a terrible drive, it's true.  I have a cabinet full of the damn
things, though.  

The real question, though, is whether any way at all exists to format other
ST506 "MFM" drives to work on the RQDX3.  There are plenty of cheap old ST506
types out there.

>> I do, however, also have a couple Emulex ESDI controllers around here
>> somewhere as well.... if you can find ESDI drives out there.  There have
>> to be some somewhere.  Likewise the Emulex SMD controllers show up a lot
>> on the used market and people will basically pay for you to carry SMD drives
>> away.
>
>ESDI drives are probably a bit tricky to find, but this is the cheapest good 
>solution.  The best obviously is SCSI, however, the controllers tend to be
>expensive unless you get very lucky.

There are a lot of tape-only SCSI controllers out there, that could become
tape-and-disk ones with the right ROMs.  Will Emulex provide them, now that
the DEC MSCP licensing issues are moot?
--scott

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