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

[Craig A. Berry]

On 7/5/21 2:57 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <sbvd54$p5i$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, chris
> <chris-nospam at tridac.net> writes:
> 
>>> 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.
>>
>> Find that odd. SATA are consumer quality, 5400 or 7200 rpm. so slow
>> access compared to U320 scsi or sas at 10 or 15k...
> 
> What about SSDs?

Since most (all?) disks used with v9.1 will be virtual, what matters
most is finding something that is easy to work with in the various
hypervisors and uses a relatively efficient driver on VMS.  I certainly
hope SATA does not imply DQDRIVER, but I don't know.