[rescue] DSSI Drives for VAX 4000-300

Jochen Kunz jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de
Mon Jan 20 15:29:00 CST 2003


On 2003.01.20 16:40 David A de Gruyl wrote:

> I am wondering if anyone knows of a source for larger hard disks
> which I could use in this machine (for not a lot of money, if
> possible).
DSSI disks are rare and expensive...

> Additionally, I believe that this machine has a SCSI qbus expansion
> card,
KZQSA (M5976) was often used in VAX4k machines. It is a simple SCSI
adapter, intended for use with tape drives only.

> My intention is to install either NetBSD or OpenBSD on this machine,
I had NetBSD running on my /300, bevore I converted it to a /400.

> it currently has VMS 5.5 on it and does not talk TCP/IP (as far as I
> know).
Well. VMS can speak TCP/IP. You have to install it. Don't ask me. I
don't know anything about VMS.
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