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From: chris@usc.edu (Christopher Ho)
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Subject: Re: What to do with old RD53 disk drives? HELP!
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Date: 16 Jul 90 18:07:39 GMT
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In article <10689@lcra.uucp>, mike@lcra.uucp (Mike O'Donnell) writes...
>Long ago and far away our MicroVAX II's outgrew their RD53 disk 
>drives.  Is it possible to use these drives for PCs or
>Macs?  Are there controllers available to support them?

RD53s are Micropolis 1325s or 1335s which are standard ST506-interface hard
disks (the difference between those two is in MTBF).  These can be used
directly on most PC controllers.  For a Macintosh, you'd need an adapter board
that tranlates from SCSI to ST506; Adaptec makes a couple boards with differing
features.

Chris