On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Mats O Jansson wrote:

> > I'm sitting here with a uVAX 3600, RA82, RA70, 32M ram, Ethernet card.
> > 
> > Why doesn't any of the mop images found in any distribution work on this
> > machine? Has anyone successfully mop'd a 3600? In that case I'd love a
> > copy of the image you sent over, just to see if the hardware is ok. =:)

> I have seen better problem reports :-) What does not work? Do you get an
> error message?

SCB2NDINT, XQA0 -- whatever I send over
 
> Still I think I know what your problem is. When I was playing with a MV3300
> some weeks ago I found that old bootblock worked but new didn't. I caused a
> SBC2INT when executing. After some debugging I found that it crashed when
> it was trying to do console io.

Aha.

> I think before the post 1.2 code appeared in NetBSD-current, KA650 used
> the mtpr routines in arch/vax/boot/consio like KA630. But in current it
> uses some rom routines.

..which are missing on KA650?

> The reason for changing is obvious, there is some versions of these machines
> that have a graphical subsystem. In that case the mtpr routines can't be 
> used, since they only works at serial console.

I'm using that pseudo-ethernet connector on the front card labeled KA650,
connected to a vt-320. Is this a default console port or an extension?

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