29 Dec
2001
29 Dec
'01
8:08 a.m.
A little later on I was involved in moving some
peripherals between Qbus
VAXen running VMS. I remember pulling an MSCP-type disk controller card
and having the tape drive disappear. Because when you had fewer disk
controllers then VMS expected to see other controllers at different
addresses. And there was no way to tell it 'Look you stupid thing, the
tape controller is at addrsss xxxxxxx'. I had to reset the address
switches/jumpers on just about every card in the system.
Actually, Tony you could go into VAX/VMS sysgen and give the address and
vectors for almost anything and have them work... the trick may have
been with the MSCP type card which has a programmable vector which may
have conflicted with something else, but in VMS 2.x-4.2 manual sysgens
could allow almost any devices to coexist...
Bill
--
d|i|g|i|t|a|l had it THEN. Don't you wish you could still buy it now!
bpechter@shell.monmouth.com|pechter@ureach.com
Again, don't laugh too hard, I hope this
message helps others who are
"Unibus Ignorant"....
My only other worry is that surely your machine is a Q-bus box???
-tony