Hey Jon...
  You should arrange to make a road trip out to my place again...we'll
have a beer or three and beat your machine into submission.  My vax is
running wonderfully at this point.  The first thing I built on it was
bash, which went off almost without a hitch.  Now I'm working on
kerberos5. :-)

  I've moved since you were last here; I'm in Silver Spring, MD now.
Mail me for directions.

  Any other folks on the list-- If you're having trouble making this
run, and you're up for a road trip, mail me.


            -Dave
             mcguire@digex.net

On October 4, you wrote:
> Hi all,
> In the process of trying to dump Ultrix 3.1 and goto NetBSD, I managed to 
> damage my RD54.  I'm not sure the extent of the damage; at the very 
> least, there's no partition table on the thing anymore.  I may even have 
> to re-format it (which I have no facilities to do).
> Anyway, here's what the kernel from the miniroot says when it finds my 
> RD54; maybe someone can tell more precisely what this means:
> 
> NetBSD 1.0A (GENERIC) #1: Fri Jun 16 11:15:25 EDT 1995
>     
> root@fred.cis.uoguelph.ca:/netbsd/NetBSD-current/usr/src/sys/arch/vax/compil
> 
> realmem = 9428992
> avail mem = 7139328
> Using 460 buffers containing 471040 bytes of memory.
> backplane0 (root)
> sbi0 at backplane0: Q22
> uba0 at sbi0 tr0
> uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 177, ipl 17
> uda0: version 3 model 3
> uda0: DMA burst size set to 4
> ra0 at uda0 slave 0: attempt to bring on line failed:  media format
> 	error (unknown subcode) (code 5, subcode 6)
> : offline
>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>         what does subcode 6 mean???
> 
> tmscp0 at uba0 csr 174500 vec 176, ipl 17
> tms0 at tmscp0 slave 0
> qe0 at uba0 csr 174440 vec 175, ipl 17
> qe0: delqa, hardware address 08:00:2b:0b:b3:22
> cpu0 at backplane0: MicroVAXII CPU
> 
> 
> BTW, yes, I know this isn't the latest miniroot, but it was the last one 
> I was able to write to tape before I destroyed my system... :-)
> 
> any help would be *greatly* appreciated...
> 
> -Jonathan
> jonathan@cc.odu.edu