18 May
1999
18 May
'99
4:58 p.m.
About a week ago I was exclaiming my good fortune in being able to have
my VAXStation 2000 recognize a plain-vanilla Maxtor XT-2190 as an RD54
and proceed to format it. My concern being that if it did not recognize
it, I did not know where to find the data required. I have since found
it on www.vaxarchive.com.
My intent in formating the 2190 was to install it in my MicroVAX 2000
and have a sort of 'matched set'. I am a bit sadder and wiser now that
I have discovered that the MicroVAX is missing a rather large daughter
board that resides beneath the motherboard in the VAXStation, and
apparently carries the HDC and SCSI controller hardware.
This seems to leave using the MicroVAX as a satellite unit to the
VAXStation as the only alternative. Tried this, and MicroVAX tried to
boot from ESA0 while cabled to the VAXStation, but no-joy. Is the
problem that of not having things set up for cluster operation? If so,
how do I do that?
Keep it rather basic, please. I am pretty ignorant about all this.
- don