31 May
2007
31 May
'07
8:24 a.m.
At 9:48 AM +0100 5/31/07, Rod Smallwood wrote:
Boot er no but as it seems as the system spent some or
all of its life
in the insurance industry I'm not surprised the disks have been wiped.
Ok so next move. I'm going to try and make a VMS 6.2 bootable tape on
the -200 as the -300 has a TK70.
Can you run a backup from one disk to another. If you can clone the
disk in your -200, then you can stick the new disk in your -300.
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.
Cables for such connections used to be quite common, I should think
it wouldn't be that hard to find them in the UK.
The tricky questions are, does the CD-ROM drive support 512-byte
blocks, as I believe that will be a requirement for booting VMS.
(Actually is this still a requirement on the latest versions of the
OS?) Also, does the board require DEC drives to work?
A quick bit of googling doesn't answer the 512-byte question, but
turnes up the following manual.
http://www.yamaha.co.jp/english/product/computer/pdf/crw4416sx_e.pdf
I also see where it was apparently a popular drive for people wanting
to hang a CD-RW drive off of a Sun box.
Zane
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