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From: jg@crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Can I safely remove a SCSI device from a running DEC3100
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Date: 12 Aug 90 20:55:13 GMT
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>>We swap TK50s around all the time here - it works fine as long as the machine
>>you are putting it on had a tape on it at boot time or it won't be
recognized.

>I didn't think TK50's were SCSI devices, though I don't know about on 3100's.
>What you describe sounds awfully like the way VMS treats them.

TK50Z's are SCSI devices; they are used with VS3100's, DS2100's,
DS3100's and DS5000's (and probably whatever else you want to plug it
into that supports SCSI).  Vanilla TK50's (which plug into VS2000's and
some of the Microvaxen) aren't quite SCSI (before we'd learned to do it
right...  Sigh...).
				- Jim