Hello,
thanks,what I am going to do is to install net bsd on the vs3100/38 (the one
with the scsi rx23)
with  an external scsi hd(rz55 maybe) ,and using a rrd42 cdrom, when the os
will be installed
on the hd ,i'll carry  it to  the other vs3100 because I want to keep the
vs3100/38 with vms to do programming on it,after the netbsd vs3100 will be
ok it will be included on the network.
Any further add of programs will the be done by ftp.
Can you tell me if I'll be able to use the mfm rz23 as a standart storage
device
to input small programs or is it totally unusable?
If i cannot use it at all I'll remove it from the box ,the power supply will
be happy,
as this station will have to do measurements (data acquisition )and will
work 24h/24h.
Thanks
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-----Message d'origine-----
De : Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
À : nierveze <alain.nierveze@radio-astronomie.com>
Cc : port-vax@netbsd.org <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Date : jeudi 12 septembre 2002 19:19
Objet : Re: du devices


On 2002.09.12 11:20 nierveze wrote:

> Hello,no not a qbus vax,I am speaking of vaxstation3100
> I picked boot.fs from 1.5.2, rawwrited it on a 1.44mo pc diskette
> (windows98),put it in different vaxstation 3100.
> on a vaxstation 3100/38 with scsi rx23 (device name dka ***,it boots),
> on another vaxstation3100/30 with a mfm rx23 (device name dua2 ,mfm
> controller inside the vs3100) it doens not boot (hlt instr) ,
Seams like this bootstrap does not support the MFM/floppy adapter. If
this is the case, you are out of luck. Mount the SCSI rx23 in the MFM
VAXstation (The SCSI floppys appear as generic removable disk so there
is no driver problem.) or install NetBSD on the first machine and use
this machine as netboot server to boot the second diskless for
installation. Unfortunately the driver for the VAXstation MFM/floppy
adapter is notoriusly broken. No surprise, who wants to use MFM disks or
floppys this day?
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tschüß,
         Jochen

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