I'm assuming you are talking about a PCB that we would solder 
ourselves?  Or what?

         In any case, I'd buy 3 - 6 depending on price, i..e. 6 if they 
were $30, or 3 if they were $50 or more.  If they were more than $100 I'd 
probably only get 1.

         It wasn't clear to me if this thing did MSCP or not but I would 
think that would be really important from a compatibility perspective.

G

At 04:16 PM 1/2/2002 -0600, J. Buck Caldwell wrote:
>I think it's safe to say that all of us with Qbus VAXen would be willing 
>to shell
>out a few bucks for a decent Qbus-ATA controller. Of course, it would be 
>nice if
>it were MSCP and/or bootable, but even without that, systems can be booted 
>from
>the network, and mount root from the IDE. And with carefull designing, 
>etching,
>and cutting, any old piece of clad should be able to have Q-bus fingers etched
>into it, right?
>
>So the question is: Who among us will pledge lives, fortunes, and sacred 
>honors
>to see this come about? In other words, fill out below to help friend Chuck
>determine how much water the well holds:
>
>I would order __ QBus-ATA Controllers for $___ each, provided a NetBSD 
>driver is
>available.
>I would order __ QBus-ATA Controllers for $___ each, if DMA were supported.
>I would order __ QBus-ATA Controllers for $___ each, if they were bootable 
>(PIO
>or DMA)
>
>
>
>
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>  - J. Buck Caldwell
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