I picked up a MV 3600 a few months ago at the UA auction that had a CMD
CQD  220/223 mscp scsi adapter. After ;putting 1.6 on it. I compiled 
several programs for over
36 hours without a hiccup. I did have problems with a NFS mount when 
ximit died.

An interesting  item is in the CMD Users manual which I noted:

"The CQD-223 consists of the CQD-220  and a microvax III adapter kit.
  A shielded SCSI cable (with shielded connectors) is required to 
connect the
CQD-223 to scsi devices."

As I recall I once had another CMD scsi->mscp controller and disk that 
acted
flacky until I replaced the SCSI cable with a newer one and the problem 
went away.

Tom



Lord Isildur wrote:
> ok, so we have had this thread before, but not for a while... 
> has anybody in the meantime ever figured out why the CMD qbus scsi-mscp
> adaptors stopped working somewhere around 1.4? also, does anyone
> know if it worked right in 1.3.3? it does in 1.3.2 (which i remember from
> a long time ago was when bob tested a whole bunch of different versions 
> on a uvax-II, as well as from still running two 1.3.2 machines), but 
> 1.3.2 has other stability issues. 
> 
> for a brief refresher, while the cmd cards will configure just fine, and
> one can do a bit of io to disks through them, theyre extremely prone to
> causing panics. From what ive guessed trying to figure out the problem, 
> they dont die immediately but leave something messed up which causes
> a problem shortly afterward.. 
> 
> Isildur
>