[Search for users] [Overall Top Noters] [List of all Conferences] [Download this site]

Conference ssag::ask_ssag

Title:Ask the Storage Architecture Group
Notice:Check out our web page at http://www-starch.shr.dec.com
Moderator:SSAG::TERZAN
Created:Wed Oct 15 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6756
Total number of notes:25276

6597.0. "IOMEGA JAZ drive" by BIS6::VERBEECK () Fri Apr 18 1997 01:35

    Hello All,
    
    Is there any info, use or testing about connecting an IOMEGA JAZ drive
    to an Alpha system running Openvms ?
    
    Thanks in advance,
    
    Verbeeck Roger
T.RTitleUserPersonal
Name
DateLines
6597.1LEFTY::CWILLIAMSCD or not CD, that's the questionFri Apr 18 1997 12:187
    Probably won't work... It is missing a number of SCSI features that
    OVMS seems to want.
    
    The JAZ drive SCSI interface could use a bit of enhancing....
    
    Chris
    
6597.2TLE::REAGANAll of this chaos makes perfect senseTue Apr 22 1997 15:216
    Haven't seen a JAZ on OpenVMS, but somebody over in the Macintosh
    notesfile hooked up a ZIP drive to OpenVMS and it seemed to work.  I
    would think it odd that the JAZ drive would be inferior in SCSI
    support that its lower capacity/lower cost ZIP bother.
    
    				-John (personally, I'm a Syquest user)
6597.3JAZ is OK on 7.1EVMS::EVERHARTMon Apr 28 1997 13:409
    The JAZ drive has been reported to work on OVMS 7.1 by several
    folks. DKdriver tries moderately hard not to require mode pages
    now that have no required bits...
    
    No reports about ZIP drives have been either posted, nor have
    I seen any.
    
    Some issues do seem to exist with some old SCSI-1 devices tho...
    
6597.4LEFTY::CWILLIAMSCD or not CD, that's the questionMon May 05 1997 10:086
    The JAZ was tried on InfoServer, and failed... due to the above
    mentioned SCSI problems. The V7.1 drivers seem to be more tolerant of
    spec issues....
    
    Chris