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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-07-06 kl. 12:22, skrev 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...

How much does the actual type of the emulated disk matter?
The physical disk will always be something modern anyway.
Probably SSD in most cases. Is there any patback from having a
SSD emulation in VMS that ends up as a container file on an SSD)?