Subject: Re: VS2000 db50 external drive cable --- can old sun3 cable be
To: None <Robertdkeys@aol.com, cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu, port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/05/2003 17:43:48
Pretty cool, and since RD54's seem to fetch $200+ on Ebay quite a deal :-) 
I ran Ultrix on my VS2000 until it was adopted by another Vax enthusiast. 
You can _talk_ to other devices on the SCSI bus but in order to boot from 
them you need a ROM patch.

At 08:23 PM 3/5/03 -0500, Robertdkeys@aol.com wrote:
>Being not the timid kind..... I tried the sun 3 scsi cable.
>It works!  The silly box has 6mb of ram and the two
>RD54's, and tk50.  Not much of a box, but something
>to try to use as the slowest vax in the world.....(:+}}...
>(Actually, at 0.9 vup, it will be similar to a KA630, from
>what I can tell, and not as slow as an 11/750 or 11/730).
>
>Does anyone know which garden varieties of NetBSD
>are actually known to boot from tk50 and work on an
>MFM VS2000 crate?   I remember there was a time
>when that capability was lost, not too long ago.
>
>Also, what is the status of using other than the tk50z
>(i.e., scsi HD's) on the scsi bus of the 2000 crate?
>
>Anyone actually running an MV/VS 2000 box?
>
>(:+}}...
>
>Thanks
>
>Bob Keys