TK50Z-GA and MicroVax 3100/90?

From: Rod Young <rodyoung_at_shaw.ca>
Date: Wed May 22 10:30:28 2002

anyone have an *extra* memory for the MV2000?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Lafleur" <bob_lafleur_at_technologist.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 9:11 AM
Subject: RE: TK50Z-GA and MicroVax 3100/90?


> 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?!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]
> On Behalf Of Christopher Smith
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:52 AM
> To: 'cctalk_at_classiccmp.org'
> 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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>
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>
>
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