Subject: Re: Well, I *wanted* to say that my pc532 lived!
To: None <paz@world.std.com>
From: Matthias Pfaller <leo@dachau.marco.de>
List: port-pc532
Date: 10/12/1995 10:22:11
> Matthias wrote me:
> >
> > "I'm running with a micropolis 4110. A friend of mine bought a Quantum
> > 730mb SCSI drive. Both drives work without problem. I have connected
> > a Quantum LP52S as a swap drive. I had the machine running with a
> > conner 520mb drive and with an oldfashioned Siemens Megafile 2600.
> > So far I haven't seen a diskdrive not working with NetBSD. My setup is:
> >
> > "SCSI id 0: Quantum LP52S (50mb, boot, root, /var)
> > SCSI id 1: Micropolis 4110 (1gb, /home, /usr)
> > SCSI id 2: Teac FC-01 (SCSI <-> Floppy bridge connected to a 3.5" (lun 0)
> >	       and a 5.25" (lun 1) floppy drive.
> > SCSI id 3: Toshiba 4101 CD-Rom drive
> > SCSI id 4: Tandberg 3660 QIC-150 drive
> >
> > "Everything works fine. I can mount ISO9660 CDs without problems and I can
> > play music with the CD-Rom drive (that's what it is used for most of
> > the time :-)
> >
> >	    Matthias"

> If I don't need to worry about compatibilities, I'll see what the market 
> offers. How big is the OS? It looks like Matthias fit it onto a 50 meg drive.

Please note that I have a 9meg /, a 9meg /var and a 32meg swap partition on
the 50mb drive. /usr on the 4110 is ~850meg... I have a spare 50meg partition
on the 4110. You could squeeze all of NetBSD1.0 in this little partition
(without sources). But you wouldn't be able to do anything with this setup.

> The SCSI-floppy bridge looks interesting. Is it still made? I'll bet it's 
> a bit pricey...

I still have *one* floppy bridge left. It's not the Teac, but an older
bridge from NCR (ADP-2xxx or something like this). I payed DM 10 for it
on a "Flohmarkt".

> Oh, what's the usual amount of RAM which people are using?

I used to have 8mb and it worked well, now I have 16mb and it works better :-)

> Hey, Jordan- keep fit, but no jogging on those grounds with the razor 
> wire and M-16s!

I second this :-)
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