Subject: Re: More on Vaxen
To: maximum entropy <entropy@tappedin.com>
From: None <roart@nvg.ntnu.no>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/05/2001 10:22:35
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 12:54:39PM -0400, maximum entropy wrote:
> >Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 09:27:20 -0400 (EDT)
> >From: linc <linc@thelinuxlink.net>
> >
> >My next problem is I have what looks like 1 working MFM drive (only 63
> >megs) between the two machines. (4 drives, just only 1 works and is
> >detected by NetBSD)  Guess I have to go MFM hunting :-)
> 
> Having MFM drives at all may be a bigger problem.

RDxx...
As long as the controller is MSCP to MFM there is no problem.

> What's the current status of support for these beasties?  I know that

Ok.
There were problems with Q-bus MSCP or RQDX3 at least as far back as 1995,
but not now.

> at various times in the past they worked (but without bad block

The MSCP controller takes care of that.

-- 
-Roar