Subject: Re: VS4000 kernel & boot(s)
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Michael Kukat <michael@camaronet.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/24/2000 13:05:32
Hi !

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> > 2) VAXstation 2000 MFM support is not compiled in in newer kernels. Does this
> > have some good reason? I tried to enable this, but it is missing some files in
> > -current. Ok, i didn't try to compile the 1.4.2-sources, just wanted to do so
> > on my 4000/90, but this didn't work due to 1) :-)
> > 
> VAXstation 2000 MFM has been broken for ages, and due to the very special
> constraints the VAXstation 2000 has wrt accessing the DMA area it wasn't 
> just as simple as make it go after the SCSI fixes. I will look at it as
> soon as I have a MV2000 set up for testing again.

If you come through Germany the next time, you can fetch one here, i have 3
of them now :-)

...Michael

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