Everhart, Glenn (FUSA) 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! ----- -----