On 25/05/07, Jason T <silent700 at gmail.com> wrote:
My old uVax II (in BA23 case) has been sitting around idle for too
long and it's time to revive it or let it move on. Right now it's got
a TK50 or TK70 which works (can boot the diagnostic tape) and a flake
RD5x drive. After laughing at the prices the gougers on ebay want for
those drives, maybe it's time to shift gears and just go SCSI.
I think the qbus scsi card is the KZQSA, or are there others that will
work?
I've been considering the same but the expense of qbus scsi has so far
put me off.
My memory of KZQSA cards they're quite limited in what you can do, eg speed
and number of drives.
Sometime in the early nineties the first UNIX box I ever saw was a DECsystem
5500 (Mips cpu with qbus, Ultrix 4 maybe) with all of it's disk in an
external box hanging off a KZQSA. When we called support about the numerous
crashes DEC asked why we were running an unsupported configuration. Of
course our answer was - 'coz you lot sold it to us like that' :)
Suffice to say a patch was forthcoming, but as to whether it'll work with
VMS I've no idea, no doubt others list members can shed more light.
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Pete Edwards
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Bohr