[Info-vax] September 6, 2016 - new Roadmap and State of the Port updates now on VSI website

[Kerry Main]

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> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On
> Behalf Of Michael Moroney via Info-vax
> Sent: 09-Sep-16 9:29 AM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Cc: Michael Moroney
> <moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com>
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] September 6, 2016 - new Roadmap
> and State of the Port updates now on VSI website
> 
> Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> writes:
> 
> >Really. I don't even know where to put those PCI and
> PCI-X adapters. The
> >only new Itanium rack system that HPE is selling *and*
is
> certified for
> >VMS, is the RX2800. It doesn't have PCI or PCI-X
> slots........
> 
> >I wonder is there is any Itanium system with PCI or
PCI-X
> slots, perhaps
> >this list of adapters was copied from the HP Alpha
> quickspecs for VMS 8.4??
> 
> >Since VSI is only selling VMS for Itanium, I wonder if
> these PCI and
> >PCI-X adapters should be listed at all.
> 
> My rx2600 at home has PCI and PCI-X slots, with boards
> that VMS understands
> in them.  Of course that system is quite "experienced"
as
> VSI puts it...
> 
> I don't know what less ancient "experienced" systems
> such as the rx2620
> and rx2660 use.
> 

Fwiw, I also have an unsupported LSI RAID adapter module
that is a PCI-X board on my rx2600. 

It works great on VSI OpenVMS 8.4-2 with my dual very
cheap 2TB WD disk drives (with HW RAID1, OS views as
single, fast 2TB volume).

I think the 2 TB drives were approx. CAD$ 175 each from my
local computer shop. LSI card was approx. CAD$75 obtained
on eBay.

:-)

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com