Subject: Re:
To: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
From: Michael Kukat <michael@bsdfans.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/01/2002 22:13:37
Hi !

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Chuck McManis wrote:
> The 4000/300 connects the DSSI drives internally via the back plane. This
> is "hard coded" to connect to one of the DSSI channels on the CPU. If you
> install a KFQSA, you _should_ bea ble to connect it to the front panel DSSI
> connector and create a "loop" the same drives will appear twice to the CPU,
> once as MSCP drives and once as DSSI drives. I've not tried this so I
> cannot say that I've seen it work, but both the DSSI bus and the DSSI
> drives support multiple masters talking to the bus.

It _IS_ possible. I have this setup running. If you give ID7 to KFQSA and a
different ID to the onboard stuff (6 here), and just connect the KFQSA to the
internal Bus 0 (i think... the cable is currently not connected, but i think
it was bus 0 where i got it), you can go with it and boot NetBSD from DSSI
disk.

...Michael

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