On 9/27/2015 2:39 PM, Charles wrote: > I just acquired an RX01 drive (and an RX8E) for my 8/A system. It wasn't > too painful to get it going, as the RX8E had "only" one bad IC that was > easy to find and I had a spare. Details on the DEC forum at > vintage-computer.com. Then the RX01 started audibly working, but with > new-old-stock 3M diskettes, showed 22 seek errors on the first pass to > Drive 0, finding good headers with correct CRC but the wrong ones a > track or two away. That cleared up promptly and 25 successive passes had > no errors on either drive. So now I have two floppies with 487 free > blocks each, built in OS/8 ;) > > However, the drive came only with the inner slides (that attach to the > chassis), but not the outer rails that bolt to the rack. > So I'm looking for either a complete pair of RX slides, or just the > outer ones that I need. If they can't be had, I may have to find a > heavy-duty rack shelf and set the drive on it. That would be > inconvenient to service the drive but it should not need attention often. > > Can anyone help me find some? Thanks. > -Charles > >
I may have some - I have quite a few different slides. However I suggest that you 1) measure them (height and length) and 2) take a photo. Chassis slides had/have a way of getting swapped between units, so it would be helpful to see exactly what you have so I can compare them to my RX units and their slides first. JRJ
