Subject: Re: Qbus IDE adapter
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Chris Craft <ccraft@springsips.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/02/2002 15:18:07
Me three! (I have several qbus machines, but precious few MFM drives or even
cable kits.)
-Chris, the RetroComputing Nut
PS: Still waiting for VAX4000/500 support in NetBSD... "Where's the kernel?"
PPS: Also still waiting on that @#*$ed Encompass!
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 02:57 pm, Gordon Zaft wrote:
> I would DEARLY love to have a few of these if someone got the urge
> to do a PCB...
>
> GZ
>
> At 11:09 AM 1/2/2002 -0800, Carlini, Antonio wrote:
> > > Chuck Dickman wrote:
> > >I have been playing with a Qbus to IDE drive adapter for a
> > > while,
> >
> >and
> >
> > >with some free time this Christmas, I got around to working on
> > >it and documenting it.
> > >
> > >You can find information here:
> > > http://www.chd.dyndns.org/qbus_ide/
> >
> > This looks really neat!
> >
> > I poked around your site for a while and
> > it sounds like you are looking for docs
> > re some older DEC chips.
> >
> > The DC003, DC004, DC005 and DC010 are
> > reasonably well documented in the back of the
> > DHV11 technical manual, EK-DHV11-TM-001
> > and EK-DHV11-TM-002 both have this
> > information.
> >
> > I'm assuming you don't have those. I don't
> > know of anywhere that has that online. I
> > scanned my DHV11 printset and that's
> > available at:
> > http://208.190.133.201/decimages/moremanuals.htm
> >
> > You could try poking around the sites
> > that http://www.decdocs.org/ points
> > to as one of them may have it
> > online.
> >
> > I'll eventually get mine scanned but
> > in the meantime - if it would be useful
> > - I could scan just the relevant pages.
> >
> > The DC021 seems to be an octal bus transceiver,
> > I *may* be able to dig something up
> > about that.
> >
> > Let me know if the scans will be useful
> > and whether it's worth looking for
> > DC021 stuff.
> >
> > Antonio
> > arcarlini@iee.org