9 Dec
2005
9 Dec
'05
7:03 p.m.
Robert Armstrong wrote:
Wolfgang Moeller produced some patches way back when for the
uVAX/VS 2000 that would allow it to use a SCSI disk.
Never actually tried it myself (as I had RD drives available
and faster machines if I just wanted speed).
Antonio
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Antonio carlini
arcarlini at iee.org
The VS2k is a
bare bones uVAX-II cpu and inst very fast but I never
thought the boot to be unusually slow unless the dianogstic
were running.
RD5x drives are painfully slow, and this is especially a problem in
the VS2000 because the integrated disk controller a) lacks DMA, and
b) lacks the T11 chip to do local processing found in a RQDXn - the
uVAX CPU has to do all the work.