Subject: VS2000 Boot rom patch (was Re: Can't probe HP DAT drive)
To: None <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
From: maximum entropy <entropy@zippy.bernstein.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/02/2001 04:36:10
>Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 10:13:06 +0100 (CET)
>From: jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de
>[...]
>The SCSI version of the TK50 is not very SCSI compatible. This drive
>was never designed to work on a real SCSI bus. It was designed for the
>VS2000 "tape port". This "tape port" is SCSI, you can connect and use
>disks on it, you can even boot from it when you patch the boot ROMs, but
>DEC never intended it for usage as a general purpose SCSI bus.

Do you have a pointer to more information about that boot rom patch?

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