On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 8:25 AM, David Riley
<fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
On those devices the PCCard slot is LUN 0 and the CF slot is LUN 1.
Hmm... interesting. I've had mixed success with multiple-LUN SCSI
devices and classic platforms.
In terms of CF media, CF-to-PCMCIA adapters are passive and cheap
(I've gotten them for $7 and under in the past), so a host that only
expects targets at LUN 0 can be accommodated (though I've seen issues
with setup software and devices that report multiple LUNs, too...
those platforms seem to only work with embedded SCSI hard disks, not
CD changers or older SCSI-to-ESDI or SCSI-to-MFM bridge boards, etc).
Someone else posted about reporting removable vs fixed and making VMS
unhappy - I'm guessing that this is reported in some bit in the IDENT
packet? I wonder if it would be feasible to hack the VMS driver to
jam that bit to "fixed" upon receipt to at least quiet any process
that would consume it. This presumes that it's only a problem once
the OS is running - it's a harder job to hack VMB.EXE and/or SCSI
VAXstation firmware. Good to hear a good report from tests on the
CQD-220.
My own interest in such an adapter would be mostly for Amigas and
VAXen, though if I do get one, I'm likely to experiment with it on a
number of older platforms (Compact monochrome "classic" Macs come to
mind).
I can easily see mounting one of these in an old external Sun CD-ROM
case and moving from machine to machine.
-ethan