mat@hou5e.UUCP (06/03/83)
I was speaking with a friend last night about this stuff as we were standing next to his 11/45 with SI disks and RK05s and he told me that he had talked about this with someone previously at DEC. The story is that many of the older DEC UNIBUS devices weren't designed to the proper tolerances, or with enough buffering, or whatever. Note that it is almost always the RK05s or TU10s that choke -- systems with two or more foriegn controllers usually don't show problems with the foriegn units but with the DEC units. Mark Terribile Remember, DEC and UNIBUS are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corp.
darrelj@sdcrdcf.UUCP (06/09/83)
At SDC, we keep buying more SI disks, so the better price/capacity than DEC offsets the hassle of multivendor support (this part is worse than any minor troubles I know of with the disks, as this leaves room for everyone to point at the other guy).