marcopolo
Experienced Member
Hi,
Any advice to move a VAX 730 by road (150km)?
Lock the disc drive heads and ???
Thanks,
Marc
Any advice to move a VAX 730 by road (150km)?
Lock the disc drive heads and ???
Thanks,
Marc
I have done that! You have to be two people to remove the drive from the cabinet, it's very heavy.
Lock at page 2-33 - 2-35 in this manual: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/...V-001_R80_Disk_Drive_Service_Manual_May82.pdf
It describes how to lock the HDA before removing it. I'll guess that it also applies when moving the drive.
Many also had RL02s. I think by that time, there were also some third-party vendors, but I'm not certain.
If you wanted to throw good money after a slow machine, you could also equip one with RA60/61 drives. Though I haven't the faintest idea why anyone would do that.
There may be some confusion here. The RA60 was only available with an SDI interface (for UDA50, HSCxx, etc.). Packs came factory-formatted as either 16- or 18-bit (the latter for DEC 10/20 systems). There was no RA61. The Rx80 was available with SDI (RA80), Massbus (RM80) and pseudo-SMD (R80, used on the VAX 730's integrated storage controller). Rx80 was field-formatable to 16- or 18-bit format. The RA81 was only available in SDI and had separate factor-formatted HDAs for 16- and 18-bit. By the time the RA82 came along, only 16-bit HDAs were supported.I know someone on the west coast with a 11/750 with an RA60, but he only has it and the massbus interface it needs because he has no other way to boot the machine.