At 01:20 PM 2/21/02, Gunther Schadow wrote:
 >Chuck, I am being sent a TK50 drive. Of course I could use the
>TQK70 card, but it's not as urgent any more. I would certainly
>be thankful for it if you have enough spares,

Will do, send me your postal address offline (I may have it but I'll have 
to check)

>>The KFQSA won't appear unless it is both configured to look for disk 
>>drives and to report them as the first MSCP device. You might try the 
>>experiment of shoving a RQDX3 in there and then seeing if the KFQSA shows 
>>up as the second controller.
>
>By configuring the KFQSA you mean by means of the dip-switch
>thing?

Unfortunately no, I mean by talking to the board through the DUP console 
protocol. There is a utility in VMS that does this so if you boot VMS on 
the box you could configure it that way, and of course the monitor prom of 
the KA650 and KA655 can do this. It might be possible for me to configure 
one and send it to you that way, but then you wouldn't get that feeling of 
accomplishment :-)

>  Seems like I have no way to configure the card by any
>other means on the uVAX-II, well, unless I know addresses to
>examine and deposit stuff.

Its worse than that. You have to load a program that acts as a server 
process, it then connects to the card using the DUP protocol and then you 
talk to it that way.

 >Seems like that is accomplished: the drive I have connected does
>do things, like spinning up and seeking and scrumbling every now and
>then. I have no clue however if that is done spontaneously by the
>drive or if the KFQSA is initiating this activity.

The cha-cha is done by the drive on its own. Its really quite an amazing 
piece of hardware. You can actually "telnet" to the drive and talk to it 
(you use set HOST/DSSI on the KA640/660 cpus). Just like talking to the HSC.

>  The little red
>LEDs at the KFQSA are all off (I assume that's a good sign) except
>for the green LED (if I don't mix that green one up with neighboring
>cards.)

I'll have to check to see if that's what mine does.
--Chuck