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In <JWG1.89Apr24142605@bunny.get.com> jwg1@bunny.get.com writes:

> According to our local DEC salesman, there are currently no third
> party drives available for the 3100, i.e., you might call it
> pseudo-SCSI.

Your going to believe a DEC salesman about 3rd party drives (even if
he knew what he was talking about)?  My recollection is that the
3100 SCSI bus is SUPPOSED to be as standard as SCSI can get (whatever
the H**L that means.  In other words, just like any other 'standard'
SCSI bus, SOME SCSI drives will work.  The problem may be (as it always
was in the past) is whether DEC is going to give you the facilities
to format the drive - i.e. are they going to let you enter the drive
geometries into the format utility or do you just specify "RZnn"?
Of course you could always write you own formatter using the 'standard
SCSI command set' (this actually would be feasible).

One thing you can be sure of, the 3rd party guys are working on solutions,
whatever they may be.  Of course their prices, like always, will be somewhere
between DECs outrageousness and rolling your own.

Chip Oliver                           coliver@cup.portal.com
Lockheed Missiles & Space             sun!portal!cup.portal.com!coliver

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