Subject: Re: RQDX3 + SCSI: Any success?
To: Bruce Lane <kyrrin@wizards.net>
From: David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/27/1997 11:35:05
Bruce Lane wrote:
> 
> 	Just wondering if anyone on the group has had any luck using both an RQDX3
> (with a pair of RD54's and an RX50) and a Sigma Information Systems RQD11
> SCSI controller in the same system?
> 

  No, although I have an RQDX3 (RD53/RX50) and a Dilog SQ670 (or whatever it
is) SCSI controller.

> 	However, I am unable to boot from the CD-ROM using the moniker 'DUB0' or
> 'DUB1' (or any DU** moniker for that matter), and when I try to load the
> system diagnostics tape with the SCSI board installed, I get a halt error
> after the initial load and then the system simply boots from the RQDX3 and
> first RD54.
> 

  What are the CSRs of the RQDX3 and RQD11?  What machine is this in?  I doubt
you'd get something like a MVII to boot from a CD-ROM unless it was MVII-
specific (all that bootblock stuff.)

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