DEC actually made its own SCSI drives at one point in Germany.
It certainly re-branded other makes.
There is nothing wrong with the KZQSA and I'll take any that are unwanted.
Third party DEC SCSI controllers - more than a couple - no special drivers
required and I have several in use.
Regards
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Rod Smallwood
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-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces at
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On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist
Sent: 09 February 2012 10:52
To: cctalk at
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Subject: Re: VAX for running old version of VMS
On 2012-02-09 02:26, Dave McGuire<mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 02/08/2012 08:18 PM, Charles Dickman wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 7:31 PM,
allison<ajp166 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> >>
> >> There is no SCSI support in VMS at all.
> >>
>
> What was the KZQSA for? I got one and thought I had scored a qbus scsi
> adapter and quickly determined it was pretty much useless. What I
> never understood for sure was if it lacked hardware documentation and
> drivers and was not supported for general SCSI use or if it was
> broken/crippled in some way so that it couldn't be used for general
> SCSI.
That's a driver issue and was some sort of "business
decision".
(means "got screwed up by suits for no good reason")
And it is an MSCP controller, is it not?
As far as I can remember, no. That was the point. It is a SCSI
controller, not an MSCP controller.
By the way, yes, there is plenty of SCSI support in VMS. All of the more
modern VAXstations and whatnot have only native SCSI, and no MSCP or
similar.
Johnny
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