22 Mar
2007
22 Mar
'07
5:52 p.m.
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.