Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
Things got interesting!!!!!!!
Enviado pelo meu telemovel
..please answer at bottom.. no one can maintain a thread where people
answering at top, at bottom or in the middle at the same time...
...things are getting more complicated now.
Altough the rtVAX300 should have an integrated SCSI Controller, the 50 Pin
can't be SCSI..
I've connected some disks, but the rtVAX isn't booting anymore, regardless
of what disk is connected. There is a 74F373 that has some wirings to that
connector and an EPM5032 is connected too. There is no row of GND Pins on
that connector.
The Ethernet Connector has 16 Pins and is a Berg type connector too.
It seems as that is a somewhat translated AUI Connector, the one of the
DELQA has 20 Pins, so it isn't the same at all. Maybe it should 1:1
connected to a DB15 receptacle with one Pin left free..
I think the next thing that I have todo is to reverse engeneer that Ethernet
Interface so that I can try to boot that thing diskless with mopd.
The Firmware shows that booting from the following devices should be
possible:
BOOT [/[R5:]<bflg>] { EZA0 | PRA0 | PRBx | CSBx }
EZA0 must be the Ethernet Interface, what could the other Abbrevations
mean?
I think that there is a mechanism to use the devices of the Host the card
lives in so that it can use the Disk from the Host trough some bridging
software. I have to look what I could find in the disk dump if I get it.
As I wrote before the system was a 486PC with an Adaptec 1542CF and a
Comtrol 4 Port Serial Card. Don't know more ...
Regards,
Holm
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