[Info-vax] search for SDI and SMD disks (in europe)

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-05-31 04.42, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> On 5/31/2011 2:49 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> On 2011-05-30 20.40, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>> RA series drives belong in a museum! They were pretty good disks for
>>> their day but that day is LONG GONE! They were power hogs, 35 ampere
>>> starting surge and something like seven amperes steady state for the
>>> RA-81.
>>
>> You make a big mistake when you group all RA-disks together like that.
>> RA8x disks are nothing like RA9x disks, which again nothing like the
>> RA7x disks. RA7x disks are just plain 5 1/4" full height disks. Draws
>> very little power, takes no more space than contemporary SCSI disks (of
>> the early 90s), and are no problems at all on modern machines.
>>
>> Johnny
>
> Sorry! Reflex!!! My experience with RA series disks is almost entirely
> with RA-81 and RA-82.
>
> The least they could have done would have be to call the later models
> RBxx, RCxx, etc.

:-)
Well, they all have the same interface (SDI).

	Johnny