Re: [pups] What hard drives to look for for PDP-11 use?

12 Oct 2000

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   1.  What mfm
hard drives from the non-DEC world could be adapted to
     work on a PDP-11?  
 Many, any that are similar to ST225(RD31) and ST251(RD32) or have the same
 CHS as RD52 (Quantum D540), MIcropolus 1325(rd53) or Maxtor2190(rd54).
 Those disks were DEC baged but not DEC made and are findable.  there are
 many similar out there as well. 
Oh, stupid me... I cleaned up the junk pile a couple of months back
and not thinking threw out about 20 of these mfm critters, not thinking
they were much usable, any more.  I did save a couple of the 150mb
mfm things from the Sun3 crate, though.  They were Micropolis, if
memory is correct.  All the 20/30/40/60/80mb things I chucked.
Oh well.

On the ESDI drives, has anyone tried the IBM things from Model 60
and Model 80 machines?  They were 70/115/300mb drives, and are
quite common.  If they were usable, I have bunches of those that
have not yet been thrown out.  They are also quite numerous in
local surplus.

Bob

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Re: [pups] What hard drives to look for for PDP-11 use?