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From: thorinn@skinfaxe.diku.dk (Lars Henrik Mathiesen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: What's inside an RD54? Summary of answers
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Date: 23 Nov 89 17:42:13 GMT
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I wrote:
>Is an RD54 a common type of Winchester drive internally, or is it
>specific to DEC?

Some answers have been posted here, to wit:
The RD54 is a Maxtor XT-2190.
The RD53 is a Micropolis 1325. A VAXStation 2000 probably can format it.

Further information from mail (which was what I asked for):
A VAXStation 2000 will format a Maxtor XT-2190 ('test 70' at the
console [ROM] prompt), even if the VAX was bought diskless --- this
has been tried. The hardest job is to get the case open.

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Lars Mathiesen, DIKU, U of Copenhagen, Denmark      [uunet!]mcvax!diku!thorinn
Institute of Datalogy -- we're scientists, not engineers.      thorinn@diku.dk