KZQSA and disks, was Re: MicroVax II question

From: John Allain <allain_at_panix.com>
Date: Tue Jan 6 11:16:23 2004

Say what it was using. There's a big difference between reading a CD and
writing a Harddrive.

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From: Lyle Bickley <lbickley_at_bickleywest.com>
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Subject: Re: KZQSA and disks, was Re: MicroVax II question


I've used a KZQSA to build VMS on both a VAX 4000 Model 300 and VAX 400
Model
600.

Lyle

On Tuesday 06 January 2004 03:30, Steven M Jones wrote:
> Jochen Kunz wrote:
> .
>
> > Unfortunately this SCSI adapter is worthless. AFAIK the KZQSA does _not_
> > support MSCP / TMSCP. It was intended as a "tape only adapter" for VAX
> > 4000 systems.
>
> I'm virtually certain I've used a KZQSA in a VAX 4000 model 500
> to attach an CD drive to the system and install OpenVMS 6 or 7.
> This may be completely compatible with what Jochen wrote, I've
> been up all night and the higher functions are going fast...
>
> Didn't actually try a hard drive as there were sufficient DSSI
> drives in the system box, but I could try that out sometime this
> week I suppose.
>
> --Steve.

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