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From: ardai@teda.Teradyne.COM (Mike Ardai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: RA70 drive in an AT?
Message-ID: <27865@teda.Teradyne.COM>
Date: 31 May 91 01:49:45 GMT
References: <1991May30.133046.29878@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
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Organization: Teradyne EDA, Inc.
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In article <1991May30.133046.29878@rodan.acs.syr.edu> acyoung@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Aaron C. Young) writes:
>	What kinda of drive is an RA70?  Can I put it in an AT with a
>	standard controller?  

Sorry.  The RA70 is a DEC drive which uses their DSSI (or is it SDI?)
interface.  This is not compatible with any standard interface card.
Your best bet would be to find someone (like a used DEC dealer) who 
would accept it in trade for a drive that could be connected to a PC,
such as an RD53 (70Mb MFM), RD54 (190Mb MFM) or one of the RZ series
(SCSI).
/mike

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