Subject: Re: booting an 11/750
To: None <bertram@ifib.uni-karlsruhe.de>
From: Andre B. Skarzynski <abs@maxwell.ctech.ac.za>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/29/1995 15:24:25
> 
> > Hmm, bootstrapping a 11/750 is an interesting question and it would be really
> > nice if someone with the hardware could figure out how.
> > 
> > A couple of thoughts/comments:
> > - the only tape driver in the current kernel supports unibus/qbus tape mscp
> >   (ie. if you 9 track is anything else, there isn't a driver yet)
> 
> I suppose it's TS11 or TS05 (TU80?) which needs the ts-driver.
> If anybody is working on a ts-driver, please contact me. 
> [I've a TSV05/TS05 and some docs. Thus I started to write tsprobe() 
> but it's far from being of any interest ... ]
> 

Well, I have alittle more info concerning the 11/750 I hopefully will have soon,
it has a unibus and the 9 track, TS11, is on the unibus. I don't know if this is
much of a help, yet. There are a few ra82 drives with a uda50 i/f so if these
will work, maybe one could put an image and bootblks on a disk using VMS $QIO.
I am newbie when it comes to VAX hardware, but I will learn quickly. 

I suppose one would have to get a kernel with tu58 support first before one can
really get the system up, or am I being negative?