Subject: Re: Minimum MicroVAX 3100/20 kernel config?
To: None <allisonp@world.std.com>
From: NetBSD Bob <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/05/1999 11:49:59
> > Question on the MicroVAX 3100/20 boxes.... the internal scsi controller 0
> > bus only has a strange looping cable with what looks like a 100 pin
> > connector. I am assuming DEC would not loop the scsi bus, even on that
>
> The terminators are on the board it loops back to.
OK, then it is 2 connectors for the price of one.....(:+}}...
> IF it's like my VS3100/m10e and my VS3100/m76 There are two scsi busses
> SCSI-A and SCSI-B (under vms devices on one would be DKAxxx or DKBxxx).
Mine has DKA and DKB series, on the MicroVAX 3100/20 (I think that is what
it really is).
> The two busses collectively support 12 drives (6 each). My disk server
> has 9 disks, TLZ30 and a CDrom and lots of SCSI cables!
OK, that must mean ID's 0-5 are actually available on each bus.
That tells me how many things to makedev.
Thanks
Bob