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Article #2067Re: SCSI disks on a MicroVAX 2000
From: Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 1990 23:54
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 1990 23:54
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> In article <1669@shodha.enet.dec.com>, alan@shodha.enet.dec.com ( Alan's Home for Wayward Notes File.) writes... > > I wouldn't trust it. And of course any attempts to do so > will result in an unsupported configuration. If something > breaks it may not be covered by any Field Service contract > that you have. More importantly, where would you find a device driver for the disk? You'll need two, a regular one and one integrated into VMB (which is, of course, in ROM on the 2000) if you want to boot from it. Just because a controller speaks SCSI out the device side doesn't mean it is supported by the DEC generic SCSI support in later VMS V5 releases. The generic SCSI is for supported SCSI interfaces on the newer systems. If you decide to live with the restriction of the disk being a non-system disk and you do write a driver, you'll discover that the protocol is a bit different in the 2000, and you'll need the source to the disk drive's firm- ware and possibly some hardware mods to the drive. All in all, not a pretty sight. Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing terry@spcvxa.bitnet St. Peter's College, US terry@spcvxa.spc.edu (201) 915-9381
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!njin!spcvxb.spc.edu!terry From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms Subject: Re: SCSI disks on a MicroVAX 2000 Message-ID: <1990Sep16.235416.519@spcvxb.spc.edu> Date: 16 Sep 90 23:54:15 GMT References: <1712.26ef97e1@hamavnet.com> <1669@shodha.enet.dec.com> <7716@sunquest.UUCP> Followup-To: comp.sys.dec Organization: St. Peter's College, US Lines: 24