[Info-vax] WTB: DSSI disks

[John Wallace]

On Nov 20, 9:42 am, starchild <totheedgeoft... at msn.com> wrote:
> On Nov 20, 12:41 am, Howard S Shubs <how... at shubs.net> wrote:
>
> > In article <00818887$0$23819$c3e8... at news.astraweb.com>,
> >  JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
> > > NEMONIX Engineering did produce DSSI drives with more recent and higher
> > > capacity HDAs, but I believe that Digital stopped at 2 gigs.
>
> > And when were the very last ones made?  By anyone?
>
> > --
> > Don't bother with piddly crap like "gun control".
> > Life is 100% fatal.  Ban it.
>
> Hello
> His/her 4000-100A will not take the big 5.25 inch drives. The
> 4000-100a supported 3 dssi drives on the top and
> 2  50 pin scsi on the bottom. They need something like the RF35 (825)/
> RF31(150) or the RF36(1.6). I maybe wrong
> but the RF36 was the biggest dssi drive in the 3.5 factor. If they're
> using a external dssi cab (R215) then those drives
> would come in handy.

OK, if SCSI isn't what's wanted and external DSSI isn't what's wanted
then as you say it's RF3x series DSSI. The same place on ebay.co.uk
that has the RF7x drives also has some RF35 (852MB) drives, £91 each.
RF31s are only 380MB which is a bit small relative to the original
request.