Re: pws 500au problems

From: Crabs (Crabs_at_ihatespam.com)
Date: 09/08/05 

Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:25:57 -0700

> The difference between A and AU or Miata and Miata GL were two that I
> can think of,
> The GL remebers the state of the power switch after interruption and
> will power
> itself backup assuming AUTO_ACTION is set to restart and GL had
> onboard SCSI.
Tom:

Although correct in a sense, your above statement isn't accurate.
There were two versions of the PWS, the Miata MX5 and the Miata GL.
Both variants came in the "A" (intended for Windoze/Linux market) and
the "AU" (intended for the Unix/VMS market). The MX5 "A" and the "AU"
didn't have the automatic startup feature your mentioned, nor did either
version have the onboard SCSI. The processor used in the systems was the
EV5. The "A" variants were configured with SCSI cards and Video cards
that weren't recognized by SRM which makes them useless for Unix or VMS.
They are quite easily changed, however, to make them SRM compliant.

In most cases, the Miata-GL "A" & "AU" versions had the onboard SCSI,
however I have seen "A" variants without it. The "-GL" variant is easily
recognized by the USB ports just below the serial ports (which were
unsupported by VMS(the USB ports that is)). The processor in these
systems was the EV56 which IMHO makes these systems faster than their
"MX5" brothers. I've read in a few places that the onboard SCSI was just
for the CDRom, but I've used it for both the CDRom and HD's with no
problems, so it must just be urban legend.

TomC

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