TK50Z-GA and MicroVax 3100/90?

From: Bob Lafleur <bob_lafleur_at_technologist.com>
Date: Wed May 22 10:11:33 2002

Maybe it would be easier to get a MicroVAX 2000 to hook the TK50Z-GA to!
I bare-bones MV2000 must be fairly inexpensive, right? Anyone got any
extras?!

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Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:52 AM
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Subject: RE: TK50Z-GA and MicroVax 3100/90?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Lafleur [mailto:bob_lafleur_at_technologist.com]

> I will shortly be receiving a MicroVax 3100/90 and a TK50Z-GA
> tape drive.
> Both have SCSI, and I assumed they would work together.
> However, I just read
> something that seems to imply the TK50Z-GA is "incompatible"
> SCSI, and will

Well, I've never heard of anyone getting it to work with anything else.
:) You could try it. It's the one without the ID selector, right?

I think the ID is fixed, since the other alternative is to pass
it through the cable, and that would be, well, interesting, to say the
least...

> only work on the MicroVax 2000. Can anyone confirm this
> either way? If it
> will work, what type of SCSI cable will I need - a standard
> one, or some

Should be a standard cable.

> proprietary one? If it won't work, is there any way to "fix"
> the TK50Z-GA so
> that it will? Thanks.

Um, yes, but it will require the internals from a tk50 drive that will
work ;) (Seriously, the drives are all the same, but some of the logic
that's packed in the case with them is different... so
I've heard.)

Chris


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