Minor VAX peripheral woes ...

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sun Dec 5 17:23:50 1999

<* I'd really like to add a 3.5-inch diskette drive (RX26? RX33 ?)

RX23

< I've not had any luck searching for used RX?? drives on the net
< (plus I'd need the bezel, mounting bracket, etc). Suggestions
< on where I should be looking instead ??? <Thanks !->

The reson for that is you need either the SCSIfied version or the earlier
plain 3.5" with a SCSI bridge board. Both will be hard to find.

<* I bought a 3rd party SCSI CD-ROM (Pioneer DR-506S 32x) and have
< it in an external enclosure. I have the 2048/512-byte per block

There are plenty of SCSI Cdroms that work fine.

< Curiously, if I attach the same drive & cable to an Alpha 600au
< workstation running OpenVMS 7.1-h2, the drive works fine. Hence
< I suspect that the OpenVMS 7.2 SCSI driver on the VAX is somehow
< to blame ... anyone know of any patches(?), or SCSI CD-ROM drivers

I did SCSI Cdrom load of the 7.2kit on my 3100 using a sony unit I had
laying around. Works just fine. May be a drive interface problem like
termination or cabling.

Allison
Received on Sun Dec 05 1999 - 17:23:50 GMT