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- From: zrepachol@cc.curtin.edu.au
- Subject: Re: RM03 Massbus-SMD controller with a Fujitsu M2284?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.070213.1@cc.curtin.edu.au>
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- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <1939@lysator.liu.se>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:02:13 GMT
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- In article <1939@lysator.liu.se>, pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson) writes:
- > I have been thinking of perhaps trying to make use of the Massbus<->SMD
- > controller/converter, that right now is sitting in a RM03, and try to
- > connect a Fujitsu M2284 (130MB) SMD drive to a Vax 11/750 with it.
- >
- > Is it possible to do it, and if so, how do I reconfigure the Massbus<->SMD
- > controller?
- >
-
- First you change the disk interface to "smd-ish" that is used for the disk-MBA
- interface. Then you reblow the PLAs in the MBC to acount for the different
- drive geometery.
-
- Of course this assumes you have already patched the DRdriver to talk to your
- disk...
-
- ~Paul
-
-