22 Apr
2012
22 Apr
'12
3:43 p.m.
On 4/22/2012 2:31 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 8:25 AM, David
Riley<fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
I picked up one of these as well, and it seems to work pretty well with
systems that don't care about the distinction between "fixed" and
"removable" media -- the cards in the slots are reported as being
removable which VMS doesn't seem to like much for using as a system
drive (though NetBSD seems to be perfectly happy).
One other caveat -- if you're using CF cards, make sure your they
support the CF interface, and not just IDE; I have 3 Hitachi 4GB
microdrives (tiny hard drives in a CF form-factor) and it turns out this
particular model only has an IDE interface. The CF slot in these
devices don't support the IDE interface and so they will not be
recognized (which is a bummer...)
Josh
Someone pointed this out a few months ago:
http://a4000t.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=66_73&am…
I believe someone else mentioned they'd been trying it out (might have
been Glen Slick?) and that there were varying degrees of success with
anything but the CF card part on most classic OSes, since each port
exists as a separate LUN on the same SCSI ID. I could be spuriously
recalling a conversation that didn't happen, though.
On those devices the
PCCard slot is LUN 0 and the CF slot is LUN 1.
I didn't have any luck using the device with the built in SCSI
controllers on either a VaxStation 3100 M76 or an InfoServer 1000,
regardless of which LUN I tried to use. The device LUNs would show up
in>>>SHOW DEVICES but errors would occur when trying to use them.
The device seemed to work fine with the limited testing I did with a
CMD CQD-220. The configuration menu for the CMD CQD-220 lets you
specify both the SCSI target ID and the target LUN. I was able to use
a CF card in the LUN 0 PCCard slot with a CF-PCCard adapter and in the
native LUN 1 CF slot. Booted both RT-11 and XXDP from the device with
the CQD-220.
-Glen