thorinn@skinfaxe.diku.dk (Lars Henrik Mathiesen) (11/11/89)
We have a number of VaxStation 2000s with RD54 disks, and we foresee the day when the disks go flaky on us (all other DEC hard disks we have had have done so). As we do not have a maintenance contract and probably never will, we have thought of exchanging the drives ourselves. So the question is: Is an RD54 a common type of Winchester drive internally, or is it specific to DEC? If anybody knows I'd really appreciate if you let me know by email. Even more so for success stories. I'll summarise. -- Lars Mathiesen, DIKU, U of Copenhagen, Denmark [uunet!]mcvax!diku!thorinn Institute of Datalogy -- we're scientists, not engineers. thorinn@diku.dk
envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) (11/17/89)
The RD54 is just the Maxtor XT-2190 winchester disk. The RD53 (if anyone is interested in that dinosaur) is a Micropolis 101405-02-5 whatever that number means. That is the only number I could find on it. We opened up our vaxstations a while back to see what kind of replacement disks we might have to buy when they die. _____________________________________ Brian V. Smith (bvsmith@lbl.gov) Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory I don't speak for LBL, these non-opinions are all mine.
rcb@ccpv1.ncsu.edu (Randy Buckland) (11/17/89)
envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) writes: >The RD54 is just the Maxtor XT-2190 winchester disk. >The RD53 (if anyone is interested in that dinosaur) is a Micropolis 101405-02-5 >whatever that number means. That is the only number I could find on it. The RD53 is a Micropolis 1325D. A standard 1325 will work if you can get it formatted. I got our local Field service guy to format it with his version of the diagnostics tape which has a more complete formatter. A 2000 could probably format it as well. Randy Buckland rcb@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu
ws@cup.portal.com (Wiley M Sanders) (11/20/89)
As a matter of fact, I have an RD53 running in my ancient Tecmar Mac Drive! The Mac Drive (connected to the Macintosh through the serial port (argh)) doesn't recognize more than 10MB of the RD53, but it works fine and puts the RD53 to a slightly better use than a doorstop. -wiley