rx01 w/o controller board

[Gooijen H]

I have two RX01 drives ...
the two boards *inside* an RX01 drive have an Mxxxx number too!
They are listed in the Field Guide: M7726 and M7727.

- Henk, PA8PDP.


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: 5-4-2005 20:50
Subject: Re: rx01 w/o controller board

Brad wrote:
I bid on an RX01 on ebay, hoping it had a controller card.   Naturally
it's
> just the drive.  [...] where can I get a controller card [...]
Naturally
> I have an unibus rx01 controller card, so all I need is a controller
card
> for this drive, right?

I'm completely confused.  You have a controller card?  Or you don't?  If
you have one, surely you don't need one?  Or are you saying that you
need
one for a different bus?  Or is your drive missing the drive
electronics,
which is the real controller (vs. the Mxxxx "controllers", which are
really just host adapters)?

The "controllers" (host adapters) are:

         Unibus         Qbus             Omnibus
         -----------    -----------      ----------
RX01     RX11  M7846    RXV11 M7946      RX8E M8357
RX02     RX211 M8256    RXV21 M8029      RX28 M8357

(Note that the RX8E and RX28 are exactly the same module.)

Eric