----- Original Message -----
From: Siegfried Pohl <spohl@bert.in-berlin.de>
To: <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 10:57 PM
Subject: Console?


> Hello World,
>
> just one week ago, I bought a VAX2000 for 20,-DM (about 10 US$), and I
> would like to install NetBSD on it. Some questions came up:
>
> - In the HOWTO, they said, I have to use a serial console, which is
>   a communication program running on a PC, like minicom. About the
>   cable to connect the VAX at the serial printer port with the PC's
>   serial port, can I use a nullmodem cable?
>
>   And if not, can such a cable, as described on the NetBSD/vax homepage,
>   be bought in a computer shop, or do I have to assemble it myself,
>   and if it can be bought in computer shops, does it have a special
>   name or description?
>
> - The "console", is it like a virtual terminal under linux, that is, can
>   I log in at the console, or do I just get messages from the computer
>   on the console (Is is a two way communication VAX <-> human, or just
>   one way VAX -> human)? What are the comm parameters? (7,n,1
>   I know, how many bit/s ?)
>
> - To connect the vax to thin ethernet, am I correct, if I say, that I
>   can use the same thin ethernet t-connector at the vax, that I use on
>   every PC?
>
> - I just attached my TK50 drive directly on the SCSI bus on my PC, running
>   Linux 2.2.12, with an Adaptec 2940. It worked fine ( I certainly had
>   to speed down the adapter, and recompile SCSI support without
>   tagged command queing), but just for _small_ files, e.g. <=10kb. For
>   larger files, I got SCSI bus errors from my kernel. Did anybody
>   manage to attach the TK50 to a modern SCSI adapter? And if yes, what did
>   you do?
>
> Thanx in advance, Siggi
> -
> | Siegfried Pohl <spohl@bert.in-berlin.de>
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>