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Is there a name for the middle slot on the removable disk drive enclosures on the VAXStations?

April 26, 2017disk drive enclosures middle removable vaxstations

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Is there a name for the middle slot on the removable disk drive enclosures on the VAXStations?

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On the data taking machines (Geiger, Hertz, Stark, Hahn, and Stern), the middle slot is already occupied with a “scratch” disk defined as user. There are already individual directories defined on that disk, such as user:[prichard] or user:[lcocke], but the whole disk can be written to or files erased by anyone logged in as ONLINE. Do not spin down or remove those disks! On the analysis machines (Lamb, Rydbrg, Balmer, and Zeeman), the middle slot is available for you to insert your removable data disks. Its name is, not surprisingly, DATA1.