3 Mar
2005
3 Mar
'05
9:52 p.m.
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 21:37:57 -0800, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
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
Lucky bastard! :-)
Either you've had a windfall, or you're now less an arm and a leg...
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.
Wow. That has happened already?... bummer
What I'd really like to see is some sort of MFM HD
emulator. That's
something that would be of use to more than just us DEC users. For
those of us that would use it with DEC HW, something that would
emulate a RD51-RD54 would be great for those OS's that expect a
specific HD type.
To fantasize further:
- device end either SCSI/U320/SCA or IDE/SATA
- bus end (Qbus or Unibus) emulates the largest type of a family, i.e:
RD/RD54, RL/RL02, RX/RX02, RK/RK07, same for RP, and the rest
I think the hardware part is the easiest. The stumbling block would be
the emulation layer in order for applications to run unchanged int the
various DEC OSs..
/wai-sun