9 Mar
2007
9 Mar
'07
9:32 p.m.
On 3/9/07, Andrew Back <andy at smokebelch.org> wrote:
I remember someone once patched the uVAX2000 firmware
so they could
(kinda) support discs on the (not wholly implemented) SCSI.
The uVAX2000 has a real 5380 chip, but the firmware side of things was
decidedly not "standard" SCSI.
I tried to fiddle with the patched ROMs a few years back, but never
managed to get it working. It would have been nice, no matter how
slow the SCSI implementation was, because it would have let me escape
RD-series-disk-Hell on those tiny boxes. At the time I was trying
this, folks were discarding 200MB-500MB SCSI disks as too small to
bother with. It would have been great to pull a full-height RD54 out
and replace it with a 500MB 3.5" disk that would be easy to stock
spares for.
Did anyone on the list ever get that uVAX2000 SCSI mod working?
-ethan