no, the TK50 is just fine. i have several of the SCSI-TK50 adaptor 
boards, same deal as the rest of this stuff, if somebodys willing to 
pay the postage, ill send it to ya. i know i have at least one of those 
boards, dunno  if i have any others. i used to have a TK50 on a 
DECstation 5k200, it was convenient wheni also had a TK on the uvII.. to 
think, i used to do backups onto TK50s!!  *ouch* 

isildur

On Thu, 24 May 2001, linc wrote:

> On Thu, 24 May 2001, NetBSD Bob wrote:
> 
> > Well, if you have the external case, you can hook that up to the M38
> > and write your own boot tape!  That is how I originally got my MVII
> > tapes written.  Just make sure the tape heads are well cleaned, and
> > that the tape transport is actually a tk50 and not a tk70 that had
> > been upgraded in the box.  You need the tk50 tape, but it will work
> > or boot (AFIK) on either a tk50 or a tk70 transport.  You also need
> > a somewhat non-standard DEC external scsi cable (wider than HD50)
> > to mate up to the tape centronics connector.  IFF you can get that
> > cable with the box, DO IT.  Make sure you check to see if the cable
> > is around.  Also, check to see if there might be any tapes to go
> > along with the transport.
> > 
> > The external cases were often used on DECstations and VAXstations for
> > external tape storage.  They are not necessarily MV2000 specific, but
> > there was one MV2000 only tape transport in the external box, I think,
> > but I forget the model numbering differences (Isildur?)?  Most likely
> > you have a standard scsi TK50 transport.
> > 
> > Bob
> 
> Aha!  The prob with that is I can't hook *anything* up to the scsi on my
> vax3100..  I can't for the life of me find that silly dec proprietary scsi
> cable.  I wish I could!  Besides, I thought the TK50 was only partially
> scsi compatable??
> 
> -Linc.
> 
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