Subject: Re: Success story + problems
To: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/22/1997 16:56:33
On May 22, you wrote:
> > The "SCSI" port is only intended for TK50 drives.  I have personally
> > witnessed the successful connection of an RZ55 to this port, but the
> > cable was scrambled and the RZ55 roms had to be scrambled and in any
> > case the Vaxstar could not boot from it.  (After this RZ55 experiment,
> > the hardware and the bodies of the guilty parties were all airshipped to
> > Area 51 and sealed in concrete.)  "Don't go there." 
> > 
> 	AFAIK the scsi port is a straight 5380 (obviously with its own
> 	set of supporting pecularities), and uses the MI NetBSD 5380
> 	code, so it should be able to run any scsi device once NetBSD
> 	has booted from another medium. Sounds like a gzipped kernel on
> 	a boot floppy is a real option here :)

  Yep...just opened one up...there's a 5380 hiding in there, pretty
close to a 50-pin IDC header.

                         -Dave McGuire