On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Marc Malagelada Duch wrote:

> Some time ago we talked about the TK50 in the uVAX2000 and VAXstations2000.
> Somebody said that it was a SCSI device.
> [...]
> Would it be possible to set-up the uVAX2000's TK50 in a PC with an Adaptec
> AHA1520 SCSI adapter to write down the NetBSD 1.1 boot image on the tape
> to boot the VAX3500 through the TK70?

There have been positive and negative answers to this, which might be
caused by the TK50 tapestation in a MicroVAX (or VAXstation) 2000 and
that in other VAXen are different items.  In any other VAX, a TK50 is
just a TK50, and is not a SCSI device.  For the MV2K and VS2K, the
TK50 is mounted in a special box with a SCSI converter board inside,
and this box can, indeed, be hooked up to normal SCSI adapters.

I should know; I've got one that I'm using in just that way for backup
purposes here, while it's waiting for the VS2K to be supported by
NetBSD to such an extent that I can move it back where it belongs...
(Yes, I ought to be helping out, but I just don't have the time now.)

-tih
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