[Info-vax] Next release of OpenVMS x86

[dthittner at gmail.com]

 a load-to-ready time that many customers thought meant the drive was broken. 
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> To comment on another reply, I was told by a reliable source that the TZ30 was the result of a barroom bet between a DECie and a Mitsubishi engineer about the impossibility of making a half-height DLT drive. Despite the "Z" in the model name, it is *NOT* a SCSI-compatible device. In fact, it can hang both halves of the only controller it was every supported on, the RQZX1. Simple user mode I/O is sufficient.

Sorry Terry, I believe you are wrong about the TZ30 not being a real SCSI device. I have a TZ30 in an external SCSI box attached to my MicroVAX 3100 via a SCSI-2 cable.  The TZ30 *is* a half-height TK50 compatible, though. I think you may be thinking of a different tape device. :-(