[Info-vax] DLT drives and antique SCSI compatibility (was: Re: Next release of OpenVMS x86_)

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Tue Jul 14 08:13:00 EDT 2020


On 2020-07-14, Terry Kennedy <terry-groups at glaver.org> wrote:
>
> I asked about this when doing the menus - using a second unit
> number to boot VAX code wouldn't have been hard, but I was 
> told to just stick to the PDP-11 side. The impression I got
> was that none of the VAX groups wanted it. They were either
> heavily invested in DSSI or already had their own limited-
> function SCSI boards.

I wonder if the DEC-specific SCSI hardware will run on any x86-64
box which has a SCSI adapter and I wonder if VSI has provided support
for such devices within x86-64 VMS ?

A TZ30 attached to a Dell box running x86-64 VMS. Now there's an
interesting concept. :-)

Simon.

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