Subject: Re: Thanks. VS2000 applications.
To: Roger Ivie <IVIE@cc.usu.edu>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@rocinante.digex.net>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/17/1996 00:34:43
On June 16, you wrote:
> All VS2000s have the SCSI hardware. The only thing the expansion box
> gives you is a cable with a connector to the outside world. If you can keep
> the whole thing in the box (say, by using a boot floppy (you'll have to
> boot from something the ROM knows how to boot from, unless you want to
> write a new ROM) and a 3.5" SCSI hard disk), you wouldn't need the
> expansion box.

  Righto...the rom doesn't know how to boot from that scsi controller.
I remember seeing an NCR 5380 on the board somewhere...maybe some of
the other ports' 5380 code could help?


                              -Dave McGuire
                               mcguire@digex.net