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From: alan@shodha.dec.com ( Alan's Home for Wayward Notes File.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: RRD50 CD-ROM reader doc and cable spec  needed
Summary: The RRD50 doesn't do SCSI.
Message-ID: <384@shodha.dec.com>
Date: 13 Aug 89 17:13:35 GMT
References: <4192@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp. - Colorado Springs, CO.
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In article <4192@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>, dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
> I just layed my hands on a used DEC RRD50 "CD Reader" CD-ROM
> reader, sans documentation.  I had thought that such a device
> from DEC had a SCSI interface, but this box has a 15-pin male
> plug which looks for all the world like an ethernet thick-wire
> transceiver port (which I'm sure it's not!) 

	The only controllers I know of for the RRD50 are a Q-bus
	DSA controller and a controller for the VAXmate.  I don't
	have anything hand to get the part numbers of the various
	boards for the Q-bus you treat it like any other DSA
	controller (RQDX3, KDA50, etc).
-- 
Alan Rollow				alan%nabeth.dec.com@decwrl.dec.com