20 Feb
2016
20 Feb
'16
4:29 p.m.
I was planning on installing OpenBSD on this box from a floppy image
however I can just swap the whole board and do a net boot of the
installer.
Thanks,
Bryan
On Feb 20, 2016, at 7:12 PM, Richard Loken <rlloken
at telus.net> wrote:
On Sat, 20 Feb 2016, Bryan Everly wrote:
Also I found a SCSI only controller on eBay for $30 that did have the
eprom in it so I picked it up. I will try it and see if I can at least
see the SCSI bus and drive. If that works then what do you think my
odds are of being able to move the eprom over to the SCSI/MFM board
and getting my floppy working?
I vote against moving the eprom to your controller, I expect they are not
the same. If you can get the SCSI controller working then pretend you
don't have a floppy drive, it would be more useful to install a CDrom
drive, I have seen VAX/VMS distros on cds and on TK50 tapes but never had
call to want a floppy drive.
I think the 3100 will be very particular about the model of CD drive that
you attach.
So I looked in mine and sent you a couple pictures of the SCSI controller
which does not have a floppy controller on it. I have a couple manuals
for the VS3100 but I cannot find them at the moments. Since I had the
box open, I removed the NiCd battery pack which is not leaking but just
might do that some day.
I am interested in knowing what is gained by having an floppy drive since
most VAXstations do not seem to have one. I have worked mostly with large
VAXen: the VAX 8600, 8650, 8820, 4000 model 300, and 4000 model 505A
as well as two little VAXstations: the 2000 and the 3100 and none of
them had a floppy drive.
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