VAXStation 4000/90 Hard drive options

[Zane H. Healy]

>I bought a Fujitsu 9.1GB 80 pin SCA drive and attempted to connect this to the
>VAX via an 80 - 50 pin converted but the drive was not recognised properly by
>either the boot rom or OpenVMS.

A couple things are needed the main thing is that you need to be 
running a new enough version of OpenVMS for it to work fairly well 
with 3rd party drives.  The other is that if you're using an 
SCA-to-50pin converter, the drive can't be to new.  Apparently the 
latest SCSI drives don't like syncing down to Narrow SCSI :^(

Zane

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