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Re: VS2000 + NetBSD



On 10.04.2018 11:15, Holm Tiffe wrote:
Anders Magnusson wrote:

Hi Holm!  Long time since last time...

Den 2018-03-24 kl. 12:33, skrev Holm Tiffe:
Hi,

A friend gave an VS2000 to me to install a BSD on that VS for him.

Which NetBSD Version would you reccomend to install on it?
since this thing isn't really a fast and big machine this hasn't to be
the last version existing..I want something that works halfways
flawlessly and as "performant" as possible on this hardware..

How much memory do you have in the VS2000?  Default is IIRC 2M which is
too small for most versions of NetBSD...

-- Ragge


I know, some time is already gone since my question here, but now
I'm sitting next to that what my friend calles an VS2000...it is an card
cage, Mainboard, Memory Board, 2 Color Options, Lance Ethernet,
  some wiring harnesses and an PSU :-|.

Ok, Tere where two  Color Boards, 4 plane and 8 plane, mounted the 4
plane version and put that thogether, connected my FreeBSD PC and here
it is:

KA410-W V2.3

F...E...D...C...B...A...9...8...7...6...5?..4...3_..2_..1...


  ?  E  0040  0000.0005
  ?  C  0080  0000.4001
??  5  0001  0000.0002

T 50



KA410-W V2.3
ID 08-00-2B-06-69-F3

    MONO     0000.0001
  ? CLK      0000.0005
    NVR      0000.0001
  ? DZ       0000.4001
       00000001 00000001 00000001 00004001 00000000 00000000
    MEM      0006.0001
       00600000
    MM       0000.0001
    FP       0000.0001
    IT       0000.0001
    HDC      7770.0001
       00000000 00000000 00000000
    TPC      0404.0001
       FFFFFF03 FFFFFF05 00000001 FFFFFF05 FFFFFF05 FFFFFF05 FFFFFF05
FFFFFF05
?? SYS      0000.0002
    4PLN     0000.0001  V1.4
    NI       0000.0001  V1.1


If I'm interpreting that correctly then the machine has 6MB of Memory.
There is no MFM Disks, but I've connected the ST31200N that was in the
box with the boards.

I don't even know if the VS2000 is able to boot from that SCSI disk, is
that possible or is an RDxx MFM disk necessary?

It's possible with a firmware patch. Not sure if it's possible to update it without an eprom-burner, though.

You find more here: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/vms/pk2k/

Completely offtopic: Has someone compiled the driver there to work with OpenVMS 7.3?

Regards,

Lukas


Regards,

Holm



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