Re: netbsd on vax 11/730; booting in sim

[Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost>]

Brad Parker wrote:
> Anders Magnusson wrote:
>> Hehe, interesting :-)
>>
>> I might put the dust off an old 11/750 with an RP07 disk and see if
>> it works with 5.0... :-)
> 
>>From what I saw the 750 support should work fine.  Only the 730 code was
> missing.  Certainly with 2.0.3.  I have not tried anything more recent,
> but I will.
> 
> mmm.  an RP07.  Have you spun it up recently?
> 
About a year since last time.  I also have a RP06, but the disk formatter
has some problem and I haven't fixed it yet. Usually connected to a DEC 2020 :-)

The RP07 should not be able to connect to 11/750 due to the high Massbus
data rate, but I have never encountered any problem.

-- Ragge