6 Jan
2002
6 Jan
'02
1:36 a.m.
Yes. I used the DQ686 with a KA630 and a KA655 under
NetBSD and it just
worked.
Looking at the compatibility listing, it didn't look like it
supported much else other than the standard MFM drives. It's good to
hear that I was wrong.
All my NetBSD installations on VAXen are done by
netboot. I never used
the install programm. I use a minimal NFS root to do the disklabel,
newfs, tar, MAKEDEV, ... procedure by hand. See the NetBSD web site for
a HowTo...
Cool...I'll have to check it out. It'll be nice to have an
alternative available.
Perhaps you should do a low level reformat and bad
block scan of the
disk? You know the magic words to invoke the controller setup?
That would probably be a good idea. Both disks were
installed into the MVII prior to 1990 and it was used for realtime
data aquisition in a production environment up until it's removal in
1990. I don't have any docs or anything on the DQ686 so, no, I don't
know anything about it's setup.
Thanks
Jeff
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