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- From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
- Subject: Re: Pro/Venix Installation
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.055216.23265@news.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: Columbia University
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- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 05:52:16 GMT
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- In article <Bts2CG.MM0@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca> kcwellsc@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (Ken Wellsch) writes:
- >> An ST-225 is RD31 and *is* standard. Make sure that it selects on DS0.
- >> You'll know you're right because it will light up when selected.
- >
- >The only point I would like to make about determining whether drive RDxx
- >works okay is this: my experience with Pro's and RD drives is that if
- >the drive meets or exceeds the required # hds/cyls etc. it may appear
- >to be working fine but you may well not be using more than say the drive
- >it thinks it is. Example, if an RD51 is not jumpered correctly, a Pro
- >(with Venix) will happily think the drive is an RD50 (5Mb rather than
- >10Mb). So please if you find something works, check how much space you
- >*really* have available, it may not be the actual drive's capacity at all.
-
- I have heard some of this before, all too fuzzy though.
-
- I have seen actual DEC RD51 drives that come with metallic cutable jumpers on
- the DS lines. DS0, DS1, DS2 are intact and DS3 is cut. This means that this
- particular drive will select on 0 or 1 or 2 but not 3. I have been told that
- the reason for cutting the DS3 line is that in (presumably one of the PRO
- models, because it ain't a DECmate or RB), the controller uses the incompatible
- notion of *reading* back DS3 instead of potentially asserting it. Thus, a
- 5 Meg has the DS3 set and a 10 Meg has it clear, so the machine "knows" what
- size disk it is. (This is back when there only were RD50 and RD51 supported.)
-
- Is there anything to this?
-
- cjl
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