[Simh] DZ11 vs DZV/DZQ11

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2018-04-10 09:12, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2018-04-10 03:28, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
>> I see 2 approaches to adding support for different unit numbers:
>> 1) A unit number is settable uniquely for each of the 4 drives that 
>> can be
>> attached to any of these controllers.  This would map to a conceptual 
>> Drive Unit
>> Plug.  Did these exist on DEC MSCP drives?
> 
> Yes they did.

I should actually add that for the RA60, RA80, RA81 and RA82, this plug 
is binary coded with 8 tabs that you can cut off, and allows you to 
select a unit number between 0 and 255. On the RA90 and RA92. The front 
panel of the disk has a display and buttons, and you can select the unit 
number from there, and it goes between 0 and 4095.
The RA70 disk has dip 8 dip switches where you can select the unit 
number. The RA70, RA71, RA72 and RA73 can also be placed in a larger box 
called the SA7x (I think, can't remember if the x was supposed to be 
replaced with some number depending on configuration), where you then 
have a display that control up to four disks in the container. Each disk 
can then be managed by a front panel on the SA. And each disk has its 
own unit number selectable on the front panel, and the unit number goes 
from 0 to 255 (not 4095 as I said in a previous post). Or at least my 
memory right now is 0..255 for the RA7x drives, but I could be 
remembering wrong.

   Johnny

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