RP10 disk controller

The RP10 disk controller is a disk device controller for the PDP-10, primarily for the early models (KA10 and KI10) which had the PDP-10 I/O Bus as a standard bus. It is always paired with a DF10 Data Channel unit which performs DMA to main memory.

It works with the RP01, RP02 and RP03 disk drives; up to 8 drives per controller. The RP10 has the ability to perform seeks on multiple drives simultaneously.

See also

• RH10 MASSBUS controller

External links

• RP10 Product Description
• RP10-C Disk Pack Synchronizer Maintenance Manual
• RP10 Engineering Drawings
• DECsystem-10 System Reference Manual - documents the RP10 in sections 7-5–7-8 (pp. 243-260 of the PDF)