22 Mar
2007
22 Mar
'07
12:48 p.m.
At 9:08 AM -0400 3/22/07, David Betz wrote:
Okay, here' s a dumb question. What do I type at
the ">>>" prompt to
boot from the SCSI controller. This is a TD Systems Viking
controller. I tried just "boot" but that seems to attempt to and
fail to boot from the ESDI hard drive. I have the MVII technical
manual and looked up the boot command but all it says is "boot
<device>" but doesn't say what the choices are for "device". What
would I enter as a device name to skip over the ESDI drive and boot
from the CD-ROM attached to the Viking controller? Also, the CD-ROM
drive is set for unit 4 if that makes a difference.
Thanks,
David
IIRC, it should be DUx: It's been a while since I booted my PDP-11,
and I've never put one in a MicroVAX. Here is the manual.
ftp://ftp.avanthar.com/dan/viking_scsi/
The important question is what version are your ROMs. I did a bunch
of work with these boards a few years ago, and as near as I was able
to determine it you need a fairly new version of firmware to use a
CD. I believe that you need higher than V3.4 firmware. I've used
DEC RRD-42, Plextor 6x & 8x caddy drives with the Viking QDT. As
I've mentioned before the use of caddy drives is in part a personal
choice as the caddy's are handy since there aren't that many PDP-11
CD's. I did try a 4x tray drive that worked in my DEC Alpha's, and
it wouldn't work.
Zane
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