Xref: utzoo comp.periphs:827 comp.misc:2144 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.misc Subject: Re: DEC RM05's on Alliant FX/8 Xylogics 451 controller Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 88 19:09:21 GMT References: <129@garfield.RDL.COM> Organization: The Office of Mismanagement and Bean Counting Lines: 12 The answer is: you can't Athough RM05's look like CDC 9766 drives, they can't be directly connected "as RM05's" to the Xylogics 451 SMD interface. The DEC Massbus interface is not the same at all. Now I have this feeling that deep inside these drives lives the SMD 9766 drive, but it would take some modification to the drive to make it useable. I have never heard anyone actually doing this. It may not be possible. -Ron Massbus, is a trademark and a regrettable mistake of Digital Equipment Corp.