Note that several additional of Mr. Moeller's packages are present here too. With Turbo Pascal now freely distributed, for example, the code that lets you use an old PC to house added disk storage for your VMS box is all the more worth having. Likewise many of his other works. The key item is the support for SCSI disks on VS2000. From: GWDVMS::MOELLER [moeller@gwdvms.dnet.gwdg.de] Sent: Friday, April 09, 1999 10:52 PM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: Preview: PK2K V1.3 & VAXstation 2000-plus ROM For the new PK2K (Vs2000/uVAX2000 SCSI port driver) versions I mentioned yesterday (V5.5-2 thru V7.1), I've created a "preview" directory with the somewhat incomplete kits that I assembled thus far - due to German DECUS, I won't find the time in the next few days to tidy them up. Meanwhile, do have a look, save a few Vs2000s from the dumpster (preferably those with >4MB of memory), and get you some SCSI widgets ... ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/vms/pk2k/preview/ http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/vms/pk2k/preview/ As usual, in the anonymous FTP (UCX V4, line mode!) directories [.VMS.PK2K...] on gwdw04.gwdg.de there may be some additional stuff. BTW, all files in [.VMS.PK2K.TEST] except for the (tentative) VMS V5.3 driver are obsoleted by the new versions. Expect them to vanish soon. I have no desire to build (let alone test) PK2K for VMS versions prior to V5.5-2, but sure it can be done, given a VAX with V5.3 .. V5.5 installed. No idea about V6.0. Given the `stability' of OVMS VAX, I'd also expect to be able to build PK2K for versions beyond V7.1 from e.g. V6.2 sources - the Vs3100 SCSI changed very little since (and the latest V7.1 ECO seems to only fix a bug that surfaced - and was fixed on the spot - during PK2K testing in 1997 :-). NOTE that PK2K does not touch upon the SCSI disk (DK) & tape (MK) drivers, which are rather well-known to have some version-specific `peculiarities'. E.g. for V6.1, some VAXSCSI*_061 ECO is _highly_ recommended ... Comments, corrections, criticism, propaganda, etc. welcome! Acknowledgements: Most of PK2K is straight PKNDRIVER (Vs3100 SCSI, (c) DEC). Thanks are also due to several anonymous contributors - I even received a copy of the rarely seen DEC-made Vs2000 CD-ROM driver (note that PK2K's scope is quite a bit wider - it can even been used to _write_ CDs). And of course, without DISM32 (Andrew Pavlin) there was no ROM patch. Wolfgang J. Moeller, Tel. +49 551 2011516 or -510, moeller@gwdvms.dnet.gwdg.de GWDG, D-37077 Goettingen, F.R.Germany | Disclaimer: No claim intended! ----- -----