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

[Sprag]

On Oct 9, 12:04 pm, John Wallace <johnwalla... at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On Oct 9, 4:50 pm, "R.A.Omond" <Roy.Om... at BlueBubble.UK.Com> wrote:
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> > 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?

Its the 'bad' one, unfortunately, so no IDE for me.