Re: RZ23 of uVAX2000?

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From: Keith Barrett
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 11:34

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In article <1992Oct12.171426.20041@lut.ac.uk>, neill_clift@hicom.lut.ac.uk writes:
>Hello all,
>           Is there any chance of being able to hook up an RZ23 to
>a uVAX2000? I am sure to have to write a driver for it but is it
>possible at all?
>Thanks.
>                          Neill.

Nope. The RZ is SCSI and the cloest thing the uVAXII has to SCSI is the
tape drive connection. Unfortunately, it's not a complete implimentation
of the signals (just enough for tape access), so it won't work with
a disk.

-- 
-kgb

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