> > When you had machines with an RL-drive "internal", you normally did not > use a cab kit. That was for external drives. The same is true for all > other DEC drives I know as well. I've certainly seen direct cabling > internally for SDI drives as well as external cabling for RX50 and TK50.
The RL01 version of the MINC doesn;t use the cab kit. It uses that Berg-RL cable from the RLV11 in the MINC chassis to the first RL01, then the normal RL-RL cable between the drives. I am not sure if that's an 'internal drive', the 2 RL01s are fitted into a small rack cabinet, the MINC chassis fits on top held down by 2 captive screws, it doesn't mount on slide rails or anything like that. Conversely the VAX11/730 has an RL02 controller as part of the IDC (Integrated Disk Controller, it talks directly to internal CPU buses rather than sitting on the Unibus). Here, there is a Berg-Berg cable from the IDC to a connector on the CPU distribution panel (which also carries the console terminal connector, etc) and then RL-RL cables from that to the first RL02 and between RL02s. Again, I don't know if you call that an internal drive, the CPU is a separate rackmouting box, the drive is another rackmounitng unit, but it was common to have 'packaged' configurations of this machine, some of which included RL02s. -tony