Subject: Re: vax.sevensages.org down
To: John Havard <enigma@sevensages.org>
From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/19/2000 11:48:12
At 11:00 AM 6/19/00 -0500, John Havard wrote:
>Well, vax.sevensages.org will be down for a few weeks, until I get a T1 to
>my house. Yes, I know I'm crazy.
T1 prices are getting downright reasonable these days, its sort of amazing.
>Now that I've gotten that out of the way, I just got a Vax 4000/300 off
>ebay. Hooray for me.
We should establish the port-vax ebay cooperative and that might help keep
us from bidding against each other ;-)
> I don't know how much hard drive space the thing
>has, but even if it has none, I've got a few scsi drives laying around
>that will work nicely.
Unfortunately, it may or may not have a SCSI interface. The 4000/300 has
DSSI on board and the BA440 cabinet is wired up to support a DSSI backplane
in the top half. Or SCSI but I seen 8 of them now and they all had DSSI up
there.
> Anything I need to take in consideration about
>installing NetBSD on the thing, as I can almost guarantee that anything
>that was on it previously is no good.
Run -current since the 1.4.x doesn't know about the KA670 processor.
--Chuck