I think the disk drives are going to be using 520 byte sectors, instead of
512-byte, or something else sane.  I know solaris can handle them, as I
have one IBM scsi drive I ripped out of an old AS/400.  It runs
flawlessly, except for that it likes to get hot..

Regards,
John Havard
Systems Administrator
Internet Doorway, Inc. 

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On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, NetBSD Bob wrote:

> I went surplus diving again, today, and picked up a rather tilting looking
> IBM 9336 AS/400 rack, with a beautiful 9 track tape deck (the horiziontal
> HP looking thing), and a rack of scsi drives.  The scsi drives appear to
> be plain old 50 pin things, and have an IBM number 62RW-100 on them
> (and 95x2069).  Anyone know if these things might run on a VAX?
> They look ordinary scsi to me, and the VAX 3100 line seems to handle
> ordinary scsi rather well.  It was worth the gamble to me, for the
> price.  I could not pass up a late model HP looking scsi 9 track tape
> at only 20 bucks (rack of scsi hds, included).....(:+\\....
> 
> Any insights are appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob
> 
>