5 Dec
2006
5 Dec
'06
7:16 a.m.
On 12/5/06, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at
gmail.com> wrote:
Unless you have a small quantity of ESDI drives, I'd suggest you be on
the lookout for a Qbus SCSI controller. They aren't usually under
$250 US, but even at that price (if it hasn't gone up recently), the
ability to use more modern drives is rather nice unless you are more
interested in a 100% vintage arrangement from before the time of SCSI
(by the time the 11/83 came around, SCSI drives weren't that rare on
DEC machines, but the controllers never were inexpensive).
Or you can take a look of my project (http://www.mscpscsi.com). After fixing
several bugs I am more confident than ever that this project will be
successful. Now I am even trying to get a PDP11 to further test the MSCP
commands of "erase" and "format" (never used by NetBSD) but the PDP11
is
very heavy to haul and I need to find a spare time to deal with this issue.
Having 3 commitments with 3 professors, I can barely find any time.
vax, 9000