[Info-vax] Modern VMS (e.g. V8.4) tape installation?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-04-29 18:58, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> Johnny Billquist schrieb:
>> On 2012-04-29 10:00, Michael Kraemer wrote:
>>
>>> Johnny Billquist schrieb:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, assuming you have the right bits and pieces. Old uVAX II machines
>>>> used to only have TK50 as the installation media.
>>>
>>>
>>> Would a DDS tape also do, provided it could be prepared
>>> accordingly?
>>> (related to the other thread on the MV2000)
>>
>>
>> Can't see why not.
>>
>
> The VS2000 could look at the vendor string,
> and, if it's not DEC, refuse it as being
> "not invented here".
> Or it could consider a DDS as being "too modern".
> Or maybe the TK50 can do things the DDS can't.
> Everything is imaginable unless somebody has
> tried it.

The DDS functionally works the same as a TK50. I happen to have both 
DDS-3 and TK50 hooked up to my PDP-11/93.

Now, the VS2000 is a bit special, in that it don't really support SCSI, 
so how would you hook up a DDS to it? I know that the tape port is 
actually SCSI, but only meant for the TKZ50 (or whatever it was called). 
So the VS2000 is not a good measuring stick.

	Johnny

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