Subject: Re: New guy...
To: linc <linc@thelinuxlink.net>
From: NetBSD Bob <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/24/2001 15:02:14

> Aha!  The prob with that is I can't hook *anything* up to the scsi on my
> vax3100..  I can't for the life of me find that silly dec proprietary
> scsi
> cable.  I wish I could!  Besides, I thought the TK50 was only partially
> scsi compatable??

>The TK50 is fine compatible on all my machines under Ultrix.  It is a
>bit hit and miss on NetBSD, depending upon the state of the TK50 driver.
>(Can someone comment for sure as to whether the TK50 bits actually do
>work in the 1.5.1BETA2 suite?..... The one I use that I know always
>works on a cold install is 1.4.1..... 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.5, all don't,
>and the early pre-1.4.1 bits work, but are slow to use.).

>Good luck finding an external cable.  I got mine from a NetBSD'r in
>Europe
>that ran into a few spares somewhere.  The cables are not the easiest
>thing to find, but are around with a little luck.  (Anyone know of any
>stock of those cables anywhere?)  If you mean the internal B bus cable,
>good luck, there, too.  They are also a bit scarce, and some of the
>machines I have run into don't have them (the 100 pin Honda connector
>B bus loop cable that goes from the controller to the floppy or cdrom
>and back to the controller, before going out the tail end to the external
>scsi chain).  Surely, something will surface for you out of the group's
>collective junque boxen.

>Good Luck

>Bob

I have several  VS/DS 3100 external SCSI cables available for shipping
costs...

I _May_ have a couple of the internal cables if I didnt toss them when I
scrapped some vs3100/m30s a few months ago...


Peter Wallace

(pcw@mesanet.com)