On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 04:00:14PM +0100, roart_at_nvg.ntnu.no wrote:
>
> > SCA/SCS can be spoken on DSSI/CI (and ethernet too), but it is not needed
> > to speak with locally connected MSCP devices.
> You mean it is possible to speak MSCP on a DSSI bus without
> an additional protocol layer?
> Or do you mean that (only?) non-DSSI controllers a la RQDXx and
> [KU]DA50 can speak MSCP without SCA/SCS?
>
> > (I think so. I am not sure, and I do not have the docs at hand.)
> I hope they exist / are available at all.
I have got a very strong feeling I was wrong. (Sorry)
But if you have to talk SCA/SCS with the DSSI-devices, that might be a
problem, since SCA/SCS is not published, and no implementations are
available.
(The Ultrix implementation may be closest, even though it is limited)
Look at
http://minnie.tuhs.org/Quasijarus/vaxhw/mscp_clu.html
(This was written by Sokolov; feel free to correct it)
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-Roar
Received on Wed Feb 27 2002 - 11:09:45 GMT