Hi,

What size disk to do you have connected to the SQ706A? I can't get my
'750/4.3BSD to handle a 2.1GB drive, though Ultrix will with a little
tweeking of the partition table. You might try a small SCSI drive,
maybe 300MB or so...

clint

On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, NetBSD Bob wrote:

> > Hi, gang,
> > 
> > 	It just occurred to me... I'm not the only one in the group who owns an
> > SQ706A.
> 
> Yeah, I have that critter in my MVII crate.  Alas, it is scsi only and won't
> do tapes.
> 
> > 	I've tried booting from a CD-ROM with the thing on a MicroVAX 3, and it
> > didn't fly. 'show dev' wouldn't even show the drive. I also tried putting
> > the same CD-ROM drive on my Sigma RQD11S board: No such luck.
> 
> Hmmm, maybe it won't handle CD's either.  Dumb board.
> 
> > 	It occurred to me that outdated firmware may be to blame in both cases.
> > The Sigma board uses an EPROM and a bunch of PALs while the Dilog board
> > looks like it uses just an EPROM. If other SQ706A and/or Sigma owners would
> > like to share a dump of their board's EPROM, I would certainly be happy to
> > archive it (them?) and make such available to others.
> 
> I could check and see what the prom says it is.  Is there a way to get
> to it short of hooking the console up to the 706 port?
> 
> > 	Shall we compare versions? ;-)
> 
> Sure....
> 
> Following the thread with the Earliest VAX port, I was playing around
> last night with Tahoe, Reno, and Quasijarus.  None of them would boot
> with their native boot blocks.... bad karma.  But, I was able to get
> the NetBSD-1.0A VAX boot blocks to load the Reno and Quasijarus
> kernels.  The problem was that everything went fine up through the
> mem/ethernet/etc, checks, but, the thing shelled out with the ol'
> all hands abandon ship panic to reboot syndrome.  I am beginning
> to suspect that the board can't handle the mscp-to-scsi conversion
> correctly, or there seems to be something veddy funky going on with
> the mscp emulation.  That means that I won't be able to get a running
> Quasijarus/Reno/Tahoe setup unless I backpedal to a dumb mfm controller.
> Anyone know, for sure, if the Dilogic 696? ESDI controller correctly
> emulates mscp close enough to boot/run the old 4.3BSD stuff?
> Else, anyone got a spare dumb, dumb, dumb ol' mfm controller with
> cables and patchpanel bits for an MVII?  Drat... I was really hoping
> I could get a 4.3BSD up easily on the scsi disks.... oh, well....
> 
> On another thread, of all the different ports I have had running on
> the ol' MVII critter lately (1.0A, 1.2, 1.3.2, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3,
> and 1.5), all hands note that the 1.4.3 is by far the best in my
> machine, runs the fastest, ethernets the fastest, and is not too
> bad at loading (about 2 minutes to boot/load vs 6 minutes on 1.5!,
> vs 1 minute on 1.0A!).  That really does kindof suggest that on
> MVII crates, the 1.4.3 may be the end of the line, practically
> speaking.  1.5 just crawls.  The 1.4.3 still has a broken shutdown
> that locks up after running the hooks and fails to actually sync and
> halt.  I have to manually sync;sync;halt to get it to really shutdown.
> Other than that, the 1.4.3 suite seems pretty nice, and it runs well
> on the SQ706A controller.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
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