24 Feb
2003
24 Feb
'03
4:58 a.m.
Hello Ethan,
I think those Sigma controllers are in the NetBSD supported
hardware list
Here's a message from Doug Meade, who got one of those
from me off eBay a couple of years ago, saying that he
has
the manual.
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/2002/05/14/0002.html
Seems Tim Shoppa is familiar with those also ...
Sigma-rebranded version of the Webster WQESD ESDI controller. (DSD and
Qualogy also rebranded Webster boards.)
http://www.classiccmp.org/mail-archive/classiccmp/1999-09/0183.html
Mark Green is/was running one.
Pat Finnegan is/was too ... ( He must be busy this morning )
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2002-July/003343.html
Best Regards
At 10:22 AM 2/24/03 -0800, you wrote:
--- Mail List
<mail.list(a)analog-and-digital-solutions.com> wrote:
Pick up a Sigma SCD-RQD11/EC when it shows up on
eBay
for around $35 to $50 ( or even less these days? )...
Are end-user docs for these sorts of controllers available? I wouldn't
mind getting a Qbus (or Unibus!) ESDI controller (I have a few drives
out of old external Sun SCSI<->ESDI enclosures) but would want one that
isn't impossible to configure.
My primary OSes would be 2BSD, possibly RSX-11 or RSTS, and maybe
even VMS (on an 11/750 or uVAX-II). In the case of 2BSD, I'd want
a controller that responds to the xp driver, IIRC.
Anyone out there have favorites?
-ethan