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Third-party SCSI compatibility with OpenVMS?

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The Question is:

 
Is there a crib sheet that will tell me what third party SCSI drives have
been found to work on the VAXstation 4000 VLC and 4000/60 systems?
 
We have found that we either get parity errors, or subsequent to init and
mount get timing errors with a Seagate 2GB and a Maxtor 2Gb.
 
 

The Answer is :

 
  OpenVMS Engineering does not maintain such a "crib sheet" for
  third-party SCSI devices.
 
  Please see previous discussions around the level of effort
  required for integration and testing to ensure that a SCSI
  device will operate as expected on OpenVMS.
 
  The level of effort required for testing and integration is
  non-trivial -- SCSI is a collection of optionally implemented
  features, and not a standard.  There are enough areas where
  interpretations of the standard can differ that it is quite
  possible to build an entirely standards-compliant configuration
  that won't work.
 

  

     

     
answer written or last revised on ( 2-DEC-1998 )
     
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