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

[Zane H. Healy]

Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <sbnids$4o7$1 at dont-email.me>, "John H. Reinhardt"
> <johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> writes: 
> 
>> 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. 
> 
> I had always assumed that I would have a mixed cluster and add some x86
> disks to shadow sets, then removed the SCSI members and the nodes
> hosting them one by one until everything is new.  If x86 will support
> SCSI, could I plug my Top-Gun Blue 40 MB/s SCSI disks in the Top-Gun
> Blue BA356 boxes into x86? 

I think a better question might be, why would you want to plug in seriously
old 40MB/s SCSI disks.  I'd much rather have my data on modern SATA, or
better yet, SAS disks.  Though the idea of booting VMS off an NVME SSD is
attractive!

Zane