Summary: Alphastation 500 SCSI
> Original Question:
>
> On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Jirik Stephen x8373 wrote:
>
> > I have an Alphastation 500 with an external 68pin Wide SCSI
> connector.
> >
> > I'd like to connect to an external DAT tape unit (TLZ-06) with a
> 50pin
> > centronics connector. Attempts via a 3rd party cable have not
> > succeeded, however we were able to connect to an external SCSI disk
> pack
> > successfully.
> >
> > We had an Digital engineer investigate and he advised that the only
> DAT
> > drive supported on the Alphastation 500 was the internal TLZ09. Is
> this
> > the case? What about DLT drives, are they able to be accessed via
> the
> > external SCSI connector?
>
> The consensus is that it should work. Others have tried it without
> problems, with the usual warnings about cable lengths.
> The Digital engineer rechecked with the local Technical Support Centre
> who maintain that external DAT drives off the internal SCSI controller
> is not supported. I suspect my third party cable, but am not entirely
> convinced.
>
> >From Aideen McConville ...
>
> We used to have a TLZ07 connected to the 68-way SCSI connector on an
> Alphastation 500. It worked fine. We used a BN36A-0B adapter cable
> with a BN23G-01 cable.
>
> For useful information about DEC cables see:
> http://www2.digital.co.uk/info_uk/Tech/cables.htm
>
> Other managers also reported success with both DAT and DLT drives.
>
> Thanks to
>
> R. Morison [russel_at_huey.met.fsu.edu]
> Russ_Fish_at_idx.com
> Izaak Bozof [izaak_bozof_at_ins.com]
> Tibor Benyi [benyi_at_ms.unimelb.edu.au]
> hmb_at_xray.mpe.mpg.de
> anthony.miller_at_vf.vodafone.co.uk
> John F. Marten [root_at_tigger.oslc.org]
> Aideen McConville [aideen_at_persimmon.co.uk]
> chrisj_at_lagoon.meo.dec.com
>
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