If you look at the list of boards in his MVII you will see that he has a 
KDA50 which is an SDI disk controller that can talk to RA81s. These are 
fairly common as silly commercial people rather run a 500MB 3.5" SCSI drive 
than a 500MB 35" SDI drive. They just don't appreciate the stablizing 
effect on a rack to have 50 lbs of disk media spinning at 3600 RPM :-)

--Chuck

P.S. If someone wants one let me know. I've got a couple of board sets 
extra and only one RA82. I might also have a cabinet kit and cabling but 
that gets heavy fast...


At 01:29 PM 2/1/2001 -0500, Bob wrote:
> > Or use the RA81. More space, more noise, more power dissipation, much
> > more fun. ;-)
>
>Will the RA81 run on the RQDX3?  Hmmm, if so, I gotta find one.  I got
>the halfrack, and a 9 track tape, and a BA23 sans plastic case, so
>that might make up a sort of rack VAX.... hmmmm.....
>
>What all is needed to hook up an RA81 to an MVII.
>
>Just thinking out loud.....
>
>Bob