12 Mar
2005
12 Mar
'05
1:04 p.m.
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:37:57PM -0800, Zane H. Healy
wrote:
I don't know of anyone having used the Acard adapters on a PDP-11
(doesn't really make sense at this point, since cheap small SCSI
drives are still easy to get). OTOH, there are people using them
with OpenVMS on DEC Alpha's. The downside is that they don't fully
support the SCSI standard, and as such, they can't be used if you
want to cluster the HD's. At least this was the case, the last I
heard, I'd love to be proven wrong, as I'd like to get a pair of UW
ones for my VMS server.
Zane
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I'm one of the lucky ones, all of my main
PDP-11's have SCSI
adapters. However, only one of my two -8's (/m & /e) have a disk
controller, though I've not found time to get either -8 fully running
:^( One thing that really worries me is that the days of being able
to get new SCSI disks that will work with a PDP-11 are coming to an
end, if they aren't already over. One of the vendors that is very
good with getting 3rd party disks to work with VMS has reported that
the new U320 drives don't sync down to Narrow SCSI right.
What about Acard IDE->scsi adapters? Anyone tried using one of them on
such machines? There has been a lot of success in using those cards on
older narrow Suns and SGIs with modern IDE disks.