Subject: Re: VAX 4000-200
To: Paul Duncan <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: emanuel stiebler <emu@ecubics.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/11/1999 10:57:32
Hi Paul,
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> From: Paul Duncan <paul@chaos-hovel.demon.co.uk>
> To: port-vax@netbsd.org
> Subject: VAX 4000-200
> Date: Sunday, April 11, 1999 11:43 AM
>
> I finally got round to taking my newest VAX to pieces today.
>
> There are four boards in it. The first has five heatsinked, surface
> mount square ships on it (amongst others) and also has an AM7992 chip,
> which I know is part of the Lance Ethernet chipset, so I'm assuming that
> this is the CPU board.
>
> The next two boards are marked GS2 and 16/8 MBYTE MOS Memory - each board
> is about half populated, so I have a total of 16MB.
>
> The final board is made by Emulex. It has dual 50 way dil ports, all
components
> appear to be duplicated, so I think its a dual channel SCSI board. There
are
> four (two by two) sets of dip switches on it, and I would love to know
what
> they are for. I took a SCSI drive and hooked it up to one of the ports
and
> did "show scsi" when I got to the boot prompt, but nothing came up. I
suppose
> this type of controller cannot be used as a boot device :-(
If you have a scanner, please put the jpg on the
<http://www.vaxarchive.org/hw/vfg/>
website. So we can all have a look at it ;-))
and contact
Kees Stravers - Geldrop, The Netherlands - kees.stravers@iae.nl
before.
thanks,
emanuel