31 May
2007
31 May
'07
10:50 a.m.
Rod Smallwood wrote:
Firstly a big thanks (THANKS) to all those who
responded to the
power
plug question.
I bought the VAX 4000-300 system on UK Ebay and did the 250 mile
trip
to Cambridge to collect it early on Saturday. These
things are not
that big but weigh a ton!! The guy selling it was lot larger than I
(thank heavans!) I did not know the suspension in may car went that
low!
Wait till you move a DECarray 900 full of RZ drives and a couple of
TZ877s :-)
The -300 also has a KZQSA (SCSI) controller and whilst
they are no
good with hard drives I think they work with CD ROM's I also have a
stand alone SCSI CD drive (Yamaha CRW4416SX) it has the really small
SCSI plugs (inch and a bit long) on the back and the KZQSA has the
really big ones.
There are cables that go from the Amphenol 50-way (on the
KZQSA) to whatever might be on the Yamaha. There are also
various adapters that might help.
Comments on which is best way to proceed welcomed.
Here's the abridged version:
Given that you have another VAX, the easiest way is to configure
the existing VAX as a cluster, configure the existing VAX to accept
the VAX 4000-300 as a satellite and then boot it as a satellite.
Now initialise the disks on the VAX 4000-300, if required. Restore
the .B saveset onto whichever VAX 4000-300 disk you want to use as
your system disk. Copy across all the installation savesets (VMS062.*
and DECW062.*) onto that disks [000000] directory. Shutdown the
VAX 4000-300 and reboot from the new system disk. Answer the
questions.
Enjoy your new VMS system.
Antonio