[SunRescue] Re: Sun 2/120 Support for NetBSD

[Chris Powell]

On Thu, 17 May 2001 16:37:39 +0100 John Honniball wrote:

> > I *think* the Sun 2 boot PROM only supported QIC11 tapes for booting.
> > Most (all?) Sun 3 tape drives were natively QIC24.
> 
> I think they could do both, according to what minor device 
> number was used.  Wasn't /dev/rst0 QIC11, and /dev/rst8 
> QIC24?

They *read* both, but the Sun 3 tape drives (Archive Scorpion and the
others - Wang?) would only write QIC24 - or at least that's what I
understand.

> > I net boot from a 3/260. Aside - if anyone in the UK has a 2/50 SCSI
> > card/memory expansion I'd be interested :)
> 
> Are they the same as a 2/120?  Only I have a spare Multibus 
> rack from a 2/120, with most of the cards in.  CPU, 
> framebuffer, Ethernet for sure.  SCSI... I'd have to check.

Nope, 2/50 (plus 2/130 and 2/160) are VME based. Unfortunately, the
NetBSD port information says the only the Multibus Sun 2s are
currently supported....


Chris.