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From: abstine@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: non-DEC disks on VAXstation 3100?
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Date: 7 Feb 89 22:18:08 GMT
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From article <270@ceres.physics.uiowa.edu>, by rlm@ceres.physics.uiowa.edu:
> Has anyone tried to attach a non-DEC disk to the SCSI port on a VAXstation-3100
> yet? I have ordered a diskless unit and am hoping one of the fast, high capacity
> CDC 5.25" disks  (e.g. Wren 3-6) will work...
> 
Note that the purely diskless VAXStation-3100 does NOT have a SCSI controller
as part of its configuration. Only the DECStation-3100 has an integral
controller.

You have to purchase a VS3100 with the RZ22 or 23 (or RZ55 or TZ30) in order 
to get the SCSI controller. Check the VAX Systems book from the Reference
service to check the configs. It shows all the configs and also states
that the diskless VS3100 does not have a disk controller. I think that DEC
is falling short on the VS3100 by not making the SCSI adapter integral to
all configs like Sun does with its workstations... sigh...

art stine
sr network engineer
clarkson u
abstine@clvms.clarkson.edu