Benjamin Huntsman wrote:
Nope... I have seen pictures of that card before...
it's very interesting too...
Do you know much about it?
at leat so mutch that it netbooted some NetBSD Code, but I failed
later within some difficulties with implementing an SCN2681 serial Driver
as console driver in NetBSD. Next Thing is, that the firmware on this Brick
is marking a memory area as bad, leaving some configuration information
there. NetBSD doesn't care about that "bad" marking and overwrites that
memory are, I had to dig into NetBSDs VM Subsystem to prevent this, but I'm
really not such a VAX Guru that I could do this (alone). The other Guys at
port-vax at
netbsd.org wherent that much interested in that thing.
So far as I know it is a full CVAX implementation with an Lance Ethernet
Controller. Theoretical it should be able to run VMS, but it isn't
supported. At least the MMU isn't castrated like that modified KA630
that is also used for thet realtime os (forgot the name for now).
I do have an VME Bus Version here too.
I do know nothing about the VAX-ISA Bridge on that board. There are some
Altera CPLDs (as you can see) that make such a bridge. In the PC it was
mounted it could boot from the PC's adaptec SCSI Controller (PC hosted
Support Software for sure)..
Regards,
Holm
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