Two quick questions, TK70 & DS

From: Stan Pietkiewicz <stanp_at_storm.ca>
Date: Sat May 8 22:24:12 1999

Chuck McManis wrote:

> 1) Can a TK70 drive read/write TK50 tapes? I'm looking for media for the
> TK70 to test it and all I've found so far are TK50 tapes (or are they the
> same tape?)
>
> 2) What termination requirements are there on DSSI disks? I powered up the
> two RF71's and the KQSFA DSSI controller in the BA213, they spun up and the
> ready lights were on but when UNIX probed the controller it saw only one
> drive and when I tried to read that drive its FAULT light started flashing.
> The cabinet is set up to connect the card to a ribbon cable that connects
> both drives and then ends at a funky high density connector (looks a lot
> like SCSI-2).
>
> Thanks,
> --Chuck McManis

The terminator hanging off the DSSI bus in my MV3500 (KA640) is p.n.:
12-29258-01.

If I remember correctly, NetBSD doesn't support DSSI drives.. ;-{(

Stan
Received on Sat May 08 1999 - 22:24:12 BST