kda50 manual and sdi cables & questions

[Antonio Carlini]

Witchy wrote:
> The standard SDI cables we have for a KDA50 are made of a
> single 32-way BERG type plug that breaks out into 4 8-way
> separate cables. These terminate in VAX bulkhead connectors,
> and even though it was only last week that I set up an SDI
> disk system I can't remember if the bulkhead connectors can be
> removed to allow you to plug the 8-way cable ends directly
> into a drive :o\ 

It's been a few years now, but I'm sure that I've removed
the metal bulkhead ends so I could got directly from KDA50
ro RA7x in a MicroVAX 3900. I'm also sure that the process
was non-destructive (i.e reversible - undo a few screws
and the two halves of the bulkhead connector come apart).

Antonio


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Antonio Carlini arcarlini at iee.org