Thanks to Rob Mayfield, Tom Webster, and Dr. Tom Blinn
for their answers to the following question.
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Folks-
>
> The new Personal Workstations 500au that we received have
> no external SCSI port, but have what appears to be two USB ports
> on the back of the machine. Can anyone confirm that these are
> indeed USB ports? If so, does anyone know of a Dec supported
> USB external disk that can be used with the new Personal Workstations?
> The only USB devices I've seen for sale are for the iMac. Will
> an external iMac USB disk run properly on a Personal Workstation?
> If so, are there any special instructions for setting it up?
>
They are indeed USB ports. They are not supported by V4.0D or V4.0E; there
will be SOME support in V4.0F, but to the best of my knowledge, no one has
tested any USB "disk" devices with Digital UNIX or any systems, and to the
best of my knowledge there are NO PLANS to provide any "disk class" device
support for USB.
If you need external SCSI, you either bought the wrong system (since as far as
know there are NO supported external SCSI interfaces for that system), or you
need to purchase an optional external SCSI interface and configure it.
Have fun.. I don't design these systems, and if you review the archives, you
will see that people have had no end of frustration with the "Personal" series
and external SCSI attachment.
Tom
Minimal support for USB hardware was added with DU 4.0E -- check the
release notes for 4.0E for (slightly) more information.
BTW - The external SCSI ports on the PWs are generally useless, the
UW-SCSI cards have fixed terminators. Meaning that you can use the
internal connector or the external connector, but not both.
Tom
Received on Sat Jan 16 1999 - 20:07:27 NZDT