Subject: Re: Is the SCSI port on a uVAX 2000 normal SCSI?
To: Daniel A. Seagraves <DSEAGRAV@toad.xkl.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.ORG>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/16/1998 13:14:17
On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:
> So, I have 2 good 200-meg SCSI devices. Can I just hang them off the SCSI
> port in the back? Then I could have an RX33 and a 200 meg SCSI hdd, all
> portable, all VAX! That would rule...
The uVax2000 will not boot from a SCSI disk (the ROM talks a
different protocol over that device... thanks Dec), but if you
can write a NetBSD kernel to an RX33 then you should be able to
boot from than then run the filesystems from a SCSI drive
(fitted inside even :)
David/absolute
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