[Info-vax] compressed SDLT capacity

[Bob Koehler]

In article <09bbf195-3cab-47c5-88e4-5d57e00d6f1c at u25g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, B Hobbs <bdhobbs18 at acm.org> writes:
> 
> With my VMS 7.1 treating the SDLT tape drive as a TK50, I suppose it
> would depend on the SCSI commands that a TK50 drive could handle and
> how the driver is programmed.  Anyone have a link to a TK50 manual
> listing the SCSI commands?

   A TK50 is not a SCSI device, there has to be a controller between
   it and a SCSI bus, so it's a matter of what commands that controller
   implements.

> Again, I suspect I'm limited to what a TK50 can do.  Though my "TK50"
> is faster and holds more than your TK50!  ;-)

   My TK50 isn't on a SCSI bus, er, well, most of them aren't.