Thomas S. Traylor writes:
 > On Wed, 28 May 1997, Gene Buckle wrote:
 > 
 > > I know this is a bit off topic, but a friend of mine is having a hell of 
 > > a time booting an Ultrix CD.  He's got a controller that is MSCP -> SCSI, 
 > > and the system will not boot from the CD.  The CD and drive are good as 
 > > he's booted other machines with them.  Any ideas as to what might be the 
 > > cause of the problem?
 > 
 > I don't think the MicroVAX II is capable of booting from devices on a
 > SCSI controller. At least this is what I recall from my VMS days on
 > MicroVAX IIs....

A MicroVAX II is perfectly capable of booting from a SCSI device, though
some controllers required specific versions of the firmware to support
certain devices. For instance, the UC07/UC08 required "N" or later to
deal with CD's.

I've a MicroVAX II with a UC08 and a Maxtor 8760S running VMS, and it
boots beautifully both from the disk drive as well as from the 8mm
tape drive that I have hooked up on the second SCSI channel.

-j