Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven!decuac!shlump.nac.dec.com!shodha.dec.com!alan 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. Lines: 14 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