Subject: Re: Qbus IDE adapter
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Chris Craft <ccraft@springsips.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/02/2002 15:18:07
Me three! (I have several qbus machines, but precious few MFM drives or even 
cable kits.)

-Chris, the RetroComputing Nut

PS: Still waiting for VAX4000/500 support in NetBSD... "Where's the kernel?"
PPS: Also still waiting on that @#*$ed Encompass!

On Wednesday 02 January 2002 02:57 pm, Gordon Zaft wrote:
>          I would DEARLY love to have a few of these if someone got the urge
> to do a PCB...
>
> GZ
>
> At 11:09 AM 1/2/2002 -0800, Carlini, Antonio wrote:
> > > Chuck Dickman wrote:
> >         >I have been playing with a Qbus to IDE drive adapter for a
> >         > while,
> >
> >and
> >
> >         >with some free time this Christmas, I got around to working on
> >         >it and documenting it.
> >         >
> >         >You can find information here:
> >         > http://www.chd.dyndns.org/qbus_ide/
> >
> >         This looks really neat!
> >
> >         I poked around your site for a while and
> >         it sounds like you are looking for docs
> >         re some older DEC chips.
> >
> >         The DC003, DC004, DC005 and DC010 are
> >         reasonably well documented in the back of the
> >         DHV11 technical manual, EK-DHV11-TM-001
> >         and EK-DHV11-TM-002 both have this
> >         information.
> >
> >         I'm assuming you don't have those. I don't
> >         know of anywhere that has that online. I
> >         scanned my DHV11 printset and that's
> >         available at:
> >           http://208.190.133.201/decimages/moremanuals.htm
> >
> >         You could try poking around the sites
> >         that http://www.decdocs.org/ points
> >         to as one of them may have it
> >         online.
> >
> >         I'll eventually get mine scanned but
> >         in the meantime - if it would be useful
> >         - I could scan just the relevant pages.
> >
> >         The DC021 seems to be an octal bus transceiver,
> >         I *may* be able to dig something up
> >         about that.
> >
> >         Let me know if the scans will be useful
> >         and whether it's worth looking for
> >         DC021 stuff.
> >
> >         Antonio
> >         arcarlini@iee.org