I'll try some fiddling also...by a happy coincidence I just bought a
MicroVAX 3800 on Saturday, so I'll clean it up a bit and try some board
swaps with my existing stuff too.  I've got a couple CQD-220s

(a 3800 is a KA650, right? or is it a KA655?)

Thomas Dzubin

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 Robertdkeys@aol.com wrote:
> I don't have a KA655 handy.  The rom revision on the KA650 is 5.6, which has
> a full set of commands like show dev, etc.  My other KA650 is a very early one
> with no commands except for what is in the KA630 rom.  I believe that its rom
> revision level is something like 1.2 or close to that.  Strange board that
> one.
> I can try swapping the early boardset in and see if that does anything.  I was
> thinking that the later boardset/rom was the best one to use.  If I get some
> time,
> I may try swapping the board into my 4000/200 and seeing if it can recognize
> drives at that speed.  Alas, when it crashed, it totally trashed my usr fs on
> the
> affected system, so it will take a day or so to rebuild it enough to get it
> onto more
> than its surviving root fs.  Ed is your true friend when all you have left is
> your root
> fs...(:+}}...
>