On October 9, NetBSD Bob wrote:
> Speaking of liking to run my VAX....(:+}}...
> I am trying to set about to make a MVII VAX with Ultrix-32M, V-1.x.

  You're a man of good taste, Bob! :-)

> 2)  Can I work back from a NetBSD on the MFM/floppy controller to
>     the Ultrix-32M, i.e., use the NetBSD box as a floppy writer?
>     I would think so, but I dunno what is the best version of NetBSD
>     that would fit or support the MFM/floppy controller.  I have the
>     RD54, so that might support a recent load, althought disk space
>     would be the main consideration.  I need about 20mb to load the
>     Ultrix-32M floppy images.  Also, what sort of jumpering is needed
>     to run the MFM/floppy controller off a machine with scsi or esdi
>     as the main controllers.

  I would think that any release of NetBSD/vax should do the trick.
The RQDX[123] controller that talks the the RX50 drives should present
them as standard DU: devices to the OS.  I'd think you could just fire
up NetBSD/vax and use dd(1) to write the images to floppies.

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD