Subject: RE: SIMH runs NetBSD/VAX
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/21/2002 10:32:03
> ----------
> From: 	Brian Wheeler
> 
> On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 08:55, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> > > 
> > > 10. I had a problem where the installation program didn't find the
> > >     .tgz files on the cd, so I had to suspend and type
> > > 
> > >         mount -t cd9660 /dev/ra1a /mnt2
> > > 
> > Sounds quite likely, cdrom's on an ra controller do not exist :-)
> > But nice it actually worked :-)
> > 
> > -- Ragge
> 
> Well both SimH and TS10 kind of cheat when it comes to disks.  Both of
> them identify their disk controllers as RQDX3's but since they're MSCP
> you can attach pretty much anything to them.  
> 
> I know TS10 will let you attach an RRD40 to an RQDX3, which isn't
> possible in real life :)
> 
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	I wonder... Couldn't you, while building a new NetBSD/VAX kernel,
force it to have a correct looking disk configuration?

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