Re: VS2000 + NetBSD

[Holm Tiffe <holm%freibergnet.de@localhost>]

Lukas Kaminski wrote:

> 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
> 


Hmm..seems not to be that easy... at least not with my level of
knowledge.

Fortunately I own an VAX4000/300 with an VMS 7.3 (?) on it, but I almost
know nothing about VMS. I'ts at least two years now since I've installed
it, but since I don't use it, I forgot almost all about it.
(I've got the machine for free, some nice people pulled the machine from
Dortmund and put it at my home ..nobody wanted it...
I've cleaned and repaired it (!"$$%"&!!! PSU !§$%&/&/), ("§$&%&!"!!
Disks "§$!) and since no Unix supports DSSI Disks, I put VMS on it.
(Machine has an CMD220 Controller too ..but ...)

BTW: since the VAX4000/300 has only 64MB RAM, I'm looking for cheap
MS670 Boards....

An Epromer isn't a problem, I have several of them, an ALL07 next to me
(with an dedicated Win98 Epromer-Controller (old Notebook)).

Currently the VS2000 is unpacking the base.tgz from an netbsd 1.5.3 on
it's disk. I've switched on the VAX ..and will try to find out how that
patch program is working on VMS.

Any hints?

Has someone the already patched (or the unpatched) rom binary handy?
The machine is installing the filesystems, don't want to disturb it...

Regards,

Holm

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