Subject: Re: IBM AS/400 62RW-100 scsi drives and9348-001 9 track on VAX?
To: NetBSD Bob <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/24/2000 18:28:57
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 03:50:33PM -0500, NetBSD Bob wrote:

> [...]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 might be differential drives...

there's been open PRs on the non-512bytes/sector problem for, oh, SIX
YEARS now.  ;)

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/1998/11/18/0003.html

<HECKLE>
even linux handles 1k sectored SCSI drives
</HECKLE>

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