How to transfer data FAST?

[Johnny Billquist]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:

> > So tell me, what are the really cool methods to transfer data between a
> > PC and a real PDP11 at a reasonable speed? SCSI controller and SCSI
> > disk? Something else? Ethernet?
> >
> > Or is a backup over serial line a normal thing...?
>
> It helps that I have SCSI Controllers on my operational PDP-11's.

SCSI makes life easy, yes... :-)

> Ethernet using either TCP/IP or DECnet is another option that I use to
> transfer data, but I try to only use that for small amounts of data.  One of
> these days I plan to go wireless with my PDP-11.  I'd also like to see if I
> can't get a SCSI DVD-ROM drive running, but considering the difficulty with
> getting a CD-ROM drive to work, I have some doubts on getting that to work.

Huh? You had problems getting a CD to work? I just plugged one in, and in
RSX I suddenly had a DU device of the type RRD40.

>dev du:
DU0:     Public Mounted Loaded Label=RSX11MPBL87 Type=RA90
         Shadow_set=(DU0:,DU1:)  Cached

DU1:     Public Mounted Loaded Foreign Type=RA90
         Shadow_set=(DU0:,DU1:)

DU2:     Public Mounted Loaded Label=RSXFREEV2 Nowrite Type=RRD40
         Cached

DU3:     Loaded Type=RA90
DU4:     Loaded Type=RA90
DU5:     Public Mounted Loaded Label=MALIN0 Nowrite Type=RA81
         Cached

DU6:     Offline Loaded Type=unknown
DU7:     Offline Loaded Type=unknown
DU10:    Offline Loaded Type=unknown
DU11:    Offline Loaded Type=unknown
>

I haven't tried a DVD, and I'm not sure I ever will. Can't really see the
point. :-)
I plan on getting a ZIP in there some day, though.

	Johnny

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