Thanks for the explanation, Ragge.  This certainly explains why it doesn't see
the internal RD32.  :-)

So it looks like, at the very least, my root will have to be available with NFS.
Maybe I can still use a SCSI disk for something.

>From my description of my weird SCSI disk behavior, can anyone think of what's
going on?  Even if I can't boot from a SCSI disk, shouldn't I be able to label
the disk from sysinst?  I might just have a bad disk, I suppose, but it works
fine on my PC and my DEC Multia.  It occurred to me that maybe it was cabling,
but that seems unlikely.  I've got a high-quality, *short* (1 foot) SCSI cable,
and using active or passive terminators seems to make no difference.  Clues?

thanks,
Jonathan








Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se> on 04/10/99 12:36:43 PM
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                


                                                              
                                                              
                                                              
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> Are MSCP drives supported currently on the VAXstation 2000?  I know
> support for them left for a period of time, I wasn't aware of it having
> been brought back into the fold.  Ragge?
>
There are no support for MSCP drives on VS2000, and there will for sure
never be :-) A VS2000 does not have anywhere to put in a MSCP controller.
The MFM controller is something completely different on a VS2000, and
there is no support for it in -current.

-- Ragge