Subject: Re: SIMH runs NetBSD/vax
To: Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/21/2002 14:51:44
> Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se> writes:
> > > uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 774 ipl 15
> > > mscpbus0 at uda0: version 3 model 3
> > > mscpbus0: DMA burst size set to 4
> > > ra0 at mscpbus0 drive 0: RA92
> > > ra1 at mscpbus0 drive 1: RD54
> > > ra2 at mscpbus0 drive 2: RD54
> > > rx0 at mscpbus0 drive 3: RX50
> > > rlc0 at uba0 csr 174400 vec 160 ipl 15
> > > rl0 at rlc0 drive 0: RL01
> > > rl1 at rlc0 drive 1: RL01
> > > rl2 at rlc0 drive 2: RL01
> > > rl3 at rlc0 drive 3: RL01
> > This is probably the most perverted disk configuration I've ever seen :-)
> 
> I don't know anything about VAX disk configurations, but I'd like to
> know more.  Why is it perverted?
> 
Well, RA92 is an SDI disk, that is normally located on a UDA50 (Unibus)
or KDA50 (Qbus, as in this case). RD54 is a MFM disk for RQDX controllers.
It's quite different controllers, but the same from a software POV.
An RL11 controller with RL01 disks are something that is 15-20 years
older than RA92 :-)

Besides that, it would work quite well :-)

-- Ragge