[Info-vax] iSCSI, AOE, or other network block device client for VMS?

[John Wallace]

On Oct 9, 4:50 pm, "R.A.Omond" <Roy.Om... at BlueBubble.UK.Com> wrote:
> Sprag wrote:
> > I'm a Hobbyist and I finally found some memory for my PWS500 (768M)
> > and I'm short on storage.
>
> > Are there any network block device clients for VMS 8.3 that can be
> > served from Linux?  I've only got a 2G 68-pin scsi device internally
> > so I'm pretty pressed for space.
>
> > I've looked at:
> > iSCSI - no VMS side
> > ATA over Ethernet - no VMS side
> > Network Block Device (Linux) - no VMS side
> > Eduardo's Poorman's Disk - VAX/VMS only
> > DECdfs - no Linux side (if it worked over IP i might be able to cobble
> > together the linux side)
>
> > Does any one have any solutions?
>
> NFS (Nightmare File System).
>
> I have oodles of (at least) 4 Gbyte drives, but you're on the
> wrong continent !

There were a number of variants of PWS500 (500a vs 500au, first
generation (no USB) vs second generation (with USB)).

If I remember rightly, the first generation ones had "issues" with the
IDE (Pyxis chip DMA problems at page boundaries on transfers larger
than 8k ?), but if it was a 2nd generation one was the DMA thing
fixed, if so would VMS talk to an IDE hard drive?