[Info-vax] Installed and working

[Bob Eager]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:38:52 +0200, Michael Kraemer wrote:

> Rich Jordan schrieb:
> 
>> I have two RZ25s still in daily use in my VS3100 at work.  I'd have to
>> ask at least $1250 each for them simply due to the inconvenience of
>> having to physically replace them.  Also an RZ24 and several RZ26
>> variants on the shelf.  Who knew that instead of gold, silver,and old
>> MoPars, DEC hard drives were what I should have invested in?
> 
> Supply and demand.
> Gold, silver, etc are still being produced, whereas RZxx aren't. And
> those RZxx are guaranteed to work in he VS31xx series which have the 1GB
> limit. Can't replace them with bars of gold.

But as I've mentioned before, you can replace them with pretty well any 
50 pin SCSI drive. Just modify the drive to lie about its size; not hard 
at all.

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