But then if you did
have a q-bus SCSI controller you wouldn't be
fighting with a 70MB hard
drive.
Exactly.
Larger ESDI hard drives shouldn't be too
difficult or
expensive to come by either.
Yeah, I know - but that's the largest I could find at
home in short notice. I may have larger ones even, I
just haven't been able to find them :) I hoped it
would be enough...
But if the point of the exercise is to make the 70MB
hard drive work I
don't have any personal experience advice there.
The point of the exercise was to get make a MicroVax
II work...
I
just download the
NetBSD 3.1 Vax CD a couple of days ago and haven't
tried installing
that yet.
CD booting from NetBSD may work. What I found was that
tape booting NetBSD quietly stopped working YEARS ago,
and the FAQ was never updated. I spent a whole day
trying to figure out why it wouldn't boot before I got
the response on port-vax "oh, yeah, just mop boot it".
And at that time I didn't realize I had an ethernet
card.
-Ian