> > My next question is predictable.  What's your VS3100/M30 got in the way of
> > a controller board?
> 
> dual SCSI board...  it looks like its wide scsi at the controller and
> standard 50-pin at the drive - is this an illusion (Digital is good at
> that) or for real?

It's not wide SCSI at the controller; it's just a DEC-specific-wired 68-pin
connector.  At the time of the 3100 Model 30, there was no standard
for wide SCSI, so it's purely accidental that the connectors are
similar.

> Also, are there any problems with Ultra scsi or large SCSI drives?

If the initial boot information that VMB wants goes beyond the
first gigabyte, you won't be able to boot.  Data disks have no such
limitation, and under NetBSD you can guarantee that this won't
be a problem with a >1GByte boot disk by making sure the boot partition
lies entirely in the first gigabyte (the way it's usually done.)

Tim. (shoppa@triumf.ca)