[geeks] Cheap refurb SCSI drives?

[John Francini]

Yup.  The RZ28-B was the Seagate version.

Others came from Conner (remember them?), Micropolis (-M variant, I  
think), and more.  On the bare drive, each was indicated by the  
suffix letter.

All of the drive variants of the RZ28 (and RZ29, etc.) were  
constrained to a given guaranteed specified number of sectors.  A DEC  
2 GB drive was actually exactly two real gigabytes of space, if I  
recall correctly (4,194,304 512-byte sectors of capacity).  None of  
this 2 billion (decimal) bytes nonsense (i.e., 2x10^9).  Ditto with  
the RZ29 4-GB drives, with 8388608 512-byte sectors.

So when you bought a DEC drive, you got all the gigabytes that you  
paid for.

John

On 18 Oct 2006, at 16:28, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> Wed, 18 Oct 2006 @ 13:16 -0600, Dan Duncan said:
>
>> On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>> All of the DEC systems I saw from the 90s had Seagate drives.
>>
>> In the early to mid-90's, DEC was still making DEC-labelled RZ27 and
>> RZ28 drives here in Colorado Springs.  (and presumably other places)
>> When they started making the RZ29 drives I saw, they were labelled
>> as Seagate drives.  Everything got exported at some point after that.
>
> DEC labeled non-DEC drives with the same numbers sometimes.
>
> I'm pretty sure there were Seagate RZ28 drives, which as far as I can
> recall just meant it was a 2GB wide SCSI drive.
>
>
>
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