Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site osu-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!cbosgd!osu-eddie!sutter From: sutter@osu-eddie.UUCP (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: Re: uVAX Disk Drives Message-ID: <602@osu-eddie.UUCP> Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 09:05:09 EDT Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.602 Posted: Thu Sep 12 09:05:09 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 13-Sep-85 04:40:15 EDT References: <8509111908.AA22726@UCB-VAX.ARPA> Organization: OSU Instruction & Research Computer Center Lines: 24 > ... I'm considering replacing the > drive with an RD52 (30Mbyte) or preferably an RD53 (70Mbyte) and was ... ... > "Art Berggreen" > ------ How about waiting until the KDA-50 appears this fall? It should be a q-bus implementation of the UDA-50, to handle RA-class drives. With the new quad high stack of RA-81s in a cabinet... Or maybe get the quad-high cabinet, only three disks, and rack-mount your uVAXII in the top slot - CPU and storage in a pretty tiny footprint. The fourth disk cable on the controller could be to another disk that was dual-ported with another *DA-50 on another machine... Has anybody heard any reliable rumors about the KDA-50's introduction? -- Human: Bob Sutterfield Facilities Management Division The Ohio State University Instruction & Research Computer Center Workplace: Ohio Cooperative Extension Service, Computer Management Group OCES VAX System Manager/Programmer (VMS) Mail: ...cbosgd!osu-eddie!sutter.UUCP or: sutter@ohio-state.CSNET MaBell: (614) 422 - 9034