1 Jun
2001
1 Jun
'01
5:40 a.m.
So far I have never seen a third party Q-bus disk interface card that
did _not_ include a PDP-11 boot rom. I'm sure they exist but they
weren't made by the 'name' brands (CMD, Dilog, Emulex, etc) The funny
thing is that the boot may consist of four 64 x 4 TTL ROMs which look
like any other chip.
--Chuck
P.S. Does anyone know if you can convert a CMD CQD200/T into a CQD200/TM
? I like that it can talk nice to my exabyte but it would be even nicer
if it could talk nice to my disks too :-)
John Allain wrote:
Yup, this is
why third party disk controllers always include a
'boot rom' option.
The sound I was looking for: ROM on card itself.
Now: How common?
Is this saying that DEC controllers will force moving the ROM
out to the bus term card as a seperate FRU? And is it really
always controller card resident for the 3rd partiers?
John A.