VAXstation 3100/76 configured as VAXserver and NetBSD

Seth J. Morabito wrote: There are non-DEC machines around that use the MicroD68 (or is it Honda68) connector ... is it just the gender that makes you say it is non-standard? Or do you believe that the DEC pin-out does not match the SCSI-2 pinout? (I cannot claimn for sure that it does since the M76 may have come out before SCSI-2 ... the engineering spec for the KA43 (system board used in the M76) is dated 16-Oct-1990 but I don't have the date of the SCSI-2 spec to hand. Either way, I pretty sure that the M76 SCSI is SCSI-1. Have you tried connecting one of those 68-pin-to-50-pin SCSI converters on it to see whether a device will work? This page http://www.phm.lu/documentation/connectors/SCSI.asp has the various pinouts so if you have a BC09J to hand you can buzz it out and see whether things are as expected or not. (My desktop VAX is a VS4000-90, which went back to the 50-way connectors on the back so I don't have a BC09J to hand. According to the cable guide I have, the BC56H (equiv to a BC09J but straight rather than 90 degrees ... or vice versa) is also used on the Decstation 2100/3100 and the InfoServer tower (whose part number I don't know). So it is not unique to this box. Antonio