Hi,

I'm new to this group and the world of the VAX. But I am certainly not
new to *nix in it's many guises...

I've liberated a VAXstation 3100/80 and a VAX 4000/705A from the crusher
at work. They are currently sat in my spare bedroom next to my two Sun
SPARCstation and an AlphaServer 2000, along with the many x86 *nix
boxes. The 3100/80 was no problem to install. It took about a day to get
NetBSD/VAX 1.5 installed, and most of that was finding a copy of mopd
that compiled and a mop boot file that wasn't corrupt. It now boots
happily off it's internal disks. The 4000/705A is a bit more difficult.
It's DSSI based and has no internal disks. I found what I believed to be
a centronics SCSI-1 connector in a card riveted to the chassis on the
left hand side. I don't know what it is, but after playing with a BA350
and SCSI cables for a couple of hours I was no closer to having
storage... It was at this time that I noticed a little sticker in the
bottom left hand corner of the case. Apparently the box used to be a
4000/600 and was upgraded by DEC in November of 1996 to a 4000/705A.

If I could rescue some of the storage that was originally attached
(HSD30 + SCSI BA350?) would NetBSD be able to use it? I believe (I could
be wrong here, as two weeks ago DEC part number were just a jumble of
numbers and letters to me!) that it's DSSI to the HSD30 controller and
then SCSI to the disks.

So in the mean time I was trying to push on with a diskless install. I'm
using a FreeBSD x86 box as the mop/bootparam/nfs server. This is what
I'm getting:

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show config
KA694-A V2.4, VMB 2.15

Scan of main memory
Memory board 0: 00000000 to 07FFFFFF, 128MB, 262144 good pages, 0 bad
pages
Memory board 1: 08000000 to 0FFFFFFF, 128MB, 262144 good pages, 0 bad
pages

Total of 256MB, 524288 good pages, 0 bad pages, 224 reserved pages
Ethernet Adapter
-EZA0 (00-00-F8-50-DF-2C)

Ethernet Adapter 0 (774440)
-XQA0 (08-00-2B-99-9F-FA)
Scan of Qbus I/O Space
-20001920 (774440) = FF08 DELQA/DEQNA/DESQA
-20001922 (774442) = FF00
-20001924 (774444) = FF2B
-20001926 (774446) = FF99
-20001928 (774450) = FF9F
-2000192A (774452) = FFFA
-2000192C (774454) = 8000
-2000192E (774456) = 1030
-20001F40 (777500) = 0020 IPCR

Scan of Qbus Memory Space
>>>show dev
DSSI Bus 0 Node 5 (SD4)
-MIA5 (TF86)

DSSI Bus 0 Node 7 (*)

DSSI Bus 1 Node 7 (*)

Ethernet Adapter
-EZA0 (00-00-F8-50-DF-2C)

Ethernet Adapter 0 (774440)
-XQA0 (08-00-2B-99-9F-FA)
>>>b/100 eza0
(BOOT/R5:100 EZA0)

  2..

Bootfile: mopboot

-EZA0
  1..0..


>> NetBSD/vax boot [Nov 17 2000 07:23:42] <<
>> Press any key to abort autoboot  543210
Trying BOOTP
bootp: no reply
Trying BOOTPARAMS
boot: client IP address: 10.0.2.6
boot: client name: blinkie
root addr=10.0.2.5 path=/usr/export/blinkie/root
|/-open netbsd.vax: No such file or directory
> boot netbsd
1160552+56892+194872+[84828+99876]=0x185e60

?06 HLT INST
        PC = 80103C9F
>>>
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Any help with the above question would be very appreciated.

Regards,
Julian.

P.S. Sorry about the mangled return address, I really *hate* spam...
remove the no.spam.
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