[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS V9.1 Field Test beginning.

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 7/2/2021 11:54 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <sbnag8$atf$1 at dont-email.me>, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at avanthar.avanthar.com> writes:
> 
>> One very obvious use case, and one that I've been involved with is recovery
>> of old obscure media that requires a Q-Bus system (or potentially Unibus).
>> For the project I helped with, it was interesting needing to figure out how
>> to read DEC media that even a couple ex-DEC FE's had never seen.  The only
>> way to read it was a Q-Bus system, and nearly impossible to source drives.
>> Having such a system in a cluster enables easily moving the recovered data.
> 
> Another approach: get a VAX with QBUS and SCSI and move the data to an
> SBB disk.  Then mount that disk on a newer system.  I'm sure that it
> will work on Alpha.  Presumably Itanium can connect SCSI disks.

Yes

> I don't know about x86.
> 

Not yet, but eventually.

 From Release Notes:

1.32 SupportedDiskTypes
VSI OpenVMS x86-64 V9.1 only supports SATA disks. Support for other disk types will be added in future releases of VSI OpenVMS x86-64.


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John H. Reinhardt