16 Mar
2010
16 Mar
'10
5:19 p.m.
Subject:
Booting a VAXstation
From:
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
Date:
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:20:19 +0000
To:
"General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
To:
"General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only" <cctech at classiccmp.org>
I have a VAXstation 3100 model 38 I bought on eBay for the princely
sum of ?0.99. Sadly it came without disks and I have no wide-SCSI
disks of <1GB.
Hi, Liam.
First thing to do is find yourself a copy of the manual for the
machine as you can do a bunch of stuff with it just from built in
diagnostics.. I seem to recall them being out on the web.. possibly here:
http://deathrow.vistech.net/~cvisors/DEC94MDS/
I know Antonio Carlini had a site with lots of nice docs too.. but my
link is dead.
Also check out older posts where people were in the same boat.. such as:
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2004-December/036556.html
My machine came with a TZ30 drive, an RD54 CD, and hard disk all
internally... mine's the M48..same as yours but with bigger case.
You might need a special cable for the external SCSI.. as its got a
funny connector on the computer end. I found one on ebay.
For hard drives, I found that I had to experiment with different ones..
not all would work (even if under 1gb). Most did, however.
Enjoy,
John Singleton