HELP! scsi needed on DEC 5830

[Mike Santangelo]

In article <795 at llnl.LLNL.GOV>, trj at phoenix.llnl.gov (Terry R. Jones x39834) writes:
>
>Hello,
>
>We're interested in connecting some scsi devices (optical disk jukebox
>and very high quality color printer) to a DEC 5830.  This brings up
>several questions:
>
> (1) Does anyone know of a BI-card that talks scsi?  (Note: the 5830 
>     doesn't have a Q-bus or Uni-bus.)  Any experience with it?

Try DILOG and CMD, the latter in particular.  They both are now
licensed for the BI bus, as well as the MSCP and TMSCP protocols
(DU and MU drivers ala VMS).  CMD does not but make SCSI stuff,
they seem pretty good.  For the BI bus, be prepared to pay top dollar
though.  Controllers for this bus are $10K and up per board.
If you want phone #'s, send mail to me at address below and I'll
send them to you (not at work now).

>
> (2) Some people have said that finding a scsi card is only half the
>     battle because scsi isn't very well defined.  Is this true?
>     Put another way, if I get a scsi compliant card and a scsi compliant
>     device--are they guaranteed to interface properly?  (One would
>     sure hope so...)
>

To some degree yes.  Try for SCSI-2 devices, they are much more well
defined.  The best thing, of course, is to see if the manufacturer of
the SCSI controller has tested their board with the device you want
to use, it would surprise you that alot of them have been tried.  Ask
the manufacturer about this.

>Thanks for any help.
>
>regards,
>terry jones
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