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

[chris]

On 07/05/21 19:03, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-07-05, chris<chris-nospam at tridac.net>  wrote:
>> On 07/02/21 18:29, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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...
>>
>> Chris
>>
>
> I wonder how long until someone asks if they can run it on an IDE
> drive... :-)
>
> Simon.
>

Well, I guess they could always fall back to ST506, as in uVax
II and others. There's also ESDI, a slightly faster version
of the same thing...