Michael Sokolov wrote:
> different story. When running on KA410, VMS does not use any real SCSI
> drivers, nor does it even acknowledge the existence of SCSI. (That's why
> VMSers would declare in a thundering voice that it's absolutely impossible
> to connect a SCSI disk or any other device except TK50Z-Fx to the Amphenol
> connector on MV2000 and VS2000.) Instead, it uses some very special driver
> that talks to TK50Z-Fx and appears to VMS's higher layers as a TMSCP
> device. As I have explained in much more detail in my lengthy posting,
> TK50Z-Fx doesn't even resemble a standard SCSI tape drive. It is something
> very very special and conjecture that it does something like TMSCP over
> SCSI (see my lengthly posting for more details).

I remember seeing in some posts in comp.sys.dec that said that somebody
wrote a driver that can control normal SCSI disks on a VS2000.  I even
remember a post where the same person was successfully writing CD's
under VMS on a VS2000.  I just did some searching on DejaNews.  The
driver should be available at "ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/vms/pk2k/", though I
can't seem to access the files.
It should also be available on the fall 1997 VMS sig tape in [.MOELLER]

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