It was never used on AWACS. -----Original Message----- From: William Donzelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 5:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Ancient military disks
I recently purchased a number of unused disk packs for the RD-281/ drive. These contain 11 14" platters, with the top platter being double layer (two platters stuck together). The bottom shield has 20 notches along the perimeter, with one being a double notch. The IBM p/n is 3904903, and they are tagged as RD-281 data cartridges by IBM. Apparently the RD-281/ was the DASD for the militarized S/370 in AWACS aircraft. These look like standard units, sort of like 3336s. They may indeed be a retagged 3336s, but I am not going to stick a new disk in my crappy 3330 just to see if one fits. Does anyone know anything about the RD-281/? Were they similar to a more well known DASD? Could these cartridges be used in the standard commercial DASDs? --------------------------------- Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
