I have 32 megs now....
Well I Am so sad to read that I will have problem with scsi disk.
rite now my machine has no disc....

I have a barracuda digital rz29 disc 4GB on the 4000/60 but I Am actually
booting from a old scsi DISC which was already inside my VAXen it is a
only 500MB disk.

So if I buy a let's say 9GB disk to install on my 4000/90 NetBSD won't
boot from it ??

thanks

Rick


On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Michael Kukat wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, NetBSD mailing list wrote:
> > someone told me 4000/90 is 3 times faster than 4000/60.
> 
> Ok, maybe the 4k60 only has 12VUPs. Confused it with the 4000/400 then.
> 
> > Well I am preparing a new console cable to connect my 4000/90 now
> > to hyperterminal and start to give a look at the PROM tests to see if the
> > hardware is working properly first.
> 
> I have it running on a DECserver 300, a nice 16-port Terminalserver. Currently
> the machine is bootet, and i can use it from anywhere i have a ssh :)
> 
> > Then I have to buy a SCSI Disc.
> > Do you think any common SCSI2 or UWSCSI2 (with proper connector) Will work
> > fine on 4000/90 ??
> 
> Hm, could be a problem. Try to get some older disk, about 2 Gigs maximum. Maybe
> the newest drives make trouble, and i know of some problem with disks of 1GB
> or more. NetBSD knows about it, and at least you have to use an old disk to
> boot from, and use the large disk for the other filesystems.
> RZ28 is a standard Quantum 2GB SCSI-2 disk, so i think you will not have any
> problems to find a good used one.
> 
> > P.S. I would be glad to know wher eI can buy SIMM RAM modules 80 pins for
> > my vaxens
> 
> Oh, i think this is a question often asked, never answered. They are hell of
> expensive, if you use the "official sources" for new modules. How much RAM do
> you have in the machine? 32 Megs is far enough for a VAX. It is neither a RISC
> machine nor a Windows machine, so you can be happy with 16 Megs in NetBSD.
> If you have 64 Megs, you really shouldn't consider buying more RAM, it is just
> enough for a VAX.
> 
> ...Michael
> 
> -- 
> In TV, there are bluescreens to put a faked reality behind a real played scene,
> in Windows, you sometimes see the real scene, when the fakes go out for lunch.
> 
>