8 Jan
2004
8 Jan
'04
9:05 p.m.
Antonio Carlini wrote:
The non-S-box version does exist though... I have one. According to
the field guide, M5976-AA has the board spine with straight handles,
and M5976-SA is S-box.
Still, it seems only useful with VMS. I experimented with it in an MV-II
and the latest openVMS version at the time. I attached a CD-rom and
also a SCSI disk. I don't know VMS at all and so didn't pursue it any
further.
-chuck
hardware. There
seemed to be some debate
as to whether the KZQSA can be used or not for hard drives.
Has anyone else reading this list
managed to conclude whether this will work or not? Will it
fit in a BA23 cabnet? Will an RZ74 work
with the MicroVax II if the board fits and is suitably configured?
You can use the KZQSA for disks but it was never supported or
recommended because it was too slow to be useful (or at
least OpenVMS felt that way). AFAIK, it does work.
Whether you can boot off it or not depends on your systems
console firmware.
All the KZQSAs I ever saw came with the S-box style handles.
This means that it will not work in a BA23 or BA123 case. It
was designed for the BA200 series.
Antonio