13 Apr
2002
13 Apr
'02
6:02 p.m.
Hey All;
Just picked up a Vax 4000/300 today with 2 RF71 DSSI drives, TK70,
and I think 64MB ram... after I clean her up (its a little dusty) I was
thinking about playing with Ultrix, as I have enough VMS machines...
anyone know or try Ultrix 4.2 on the 4000/300? thats the latest I have
for the vax platform.. I have 4.5 but thats for the MIPS which I run on
my DECsystem 5000/240.
Thanks
--
David Barnes
davebarnes(a)adelphia.net
OpenVMS , Tru64, Netbsd, Linux guru
and collector of DEC equipment
13 Apr
13 Apr
6:49 p.m.
On 13 Apr, David Barnes wrote:
anyone know or try Ultrix 4.2 on the 4000/300?
Will not run. AFAIK the MV3800/3900 / KA655 was the last QBus machine
that could run Ultrix. You have to go with VMS or NetBSD.
--
tschuess,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz
8:16 p.m.
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 jkunz(a)unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:
Especially since that machine isn't Qbus. It's main bus is that 4300+
PELE stuff.
Peace... Sridhar
anyone know or
try Ultrix 4.2 on the 4000/300?
Will not run. AFAIK the MV3800/3900 / KA655 was the
last QBus machine
that could run Ultrix. You have to go with VMS or NetBSD.
14 Apr
14 Apr
4:46 a.m.
ahh yes... true... NetBSD it is then...
Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 jkunz(a)unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:
Especially since that machine isn't Qbus. It's main bus is that 4300+
PELE stuff.
Peace... Sridhar
--
David Barnes
davebarnes(a)adelphia.net
OpenVMS , Tru64, Netbsd, Linux guru
and collector of DEC equipment
anyone
know or try Ultrix 4.2 on the 4000/300?
Will not run. AFAIK the MV3800/3900 / KA655
was the last QBus machine
that could run Ultrix. You have to go with VMS or NetBSD.
5:13 a.m.
On 13 Apr, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
Especially since that machine isn't Qbus.
It's main bus is that 4300+
PELE stuff.
True and false. ;-)
The machine has a QBus and therefore the CPU card has a QBus interface.
So it is a QBus VAX by my definition.
The CPU board is no QBus board like the KA630..KA660. It has a special
backplane connector and the (passive) backplane distributes the signals
from this connector to the QBus slots, the memory slots
and DSSI drive
bays. So this is no QBus VAX by your definition.
--
tschuess,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz
8:05 p.m.
On Sun, 14 Apr 2002 jkunz(a)unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:
But that is not how I define it. The system bus of this machine is not
Qbus, so the machine is not a Qbus machine.
Peace... Sridhar
Especially
since that machine isn't Qbus. It's main bus is that 4300+
PELE stuff.
True and false. ;-)
The machine has a QBus and therefore the CPU card has a QBus interface.
So it is a QBus VAX by my definition.
The CPU board is no QBus board like the KA630..KA660. It has a special
backplane connector and the (passive) backplane distributes the signals
from this connector to the QBus slots, the memory slots and DSSI drive
bays. So this is no QBus VAX by your definition.
15 Apr
15 Apr
5:58 a.m.
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 09:05:02PM -0400, Sridhar the POWERful wrote:
But that is not how I define it. The system bus of
this machine is not
Qbus, so the machine is not a Qbus machine.
Even on a MV II / KA630 the QBus is not
the system bus. The QBus is
attached through a bus bridge to the on board system bus. The console
SLU, TOY clock, ... reside on this bus too. So, by this definition,
no VAX is a QBus VAX. Hmmm. Maybe the MV I / KA610 can be a real QBus
machine, as it uses QBus RAM.
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
13 Apr
13 Apr
8:34 p.m.
hmm ok thanks for the info.. wonder what the problem is... CPU support
not in the kernel?
jkunz(a)unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:
On 13 Apr, David Barnes wrote:
--
David Barnes
davebarnes(a)adelphia.net
OpenVMS , Tru64, Netbsd, Linux guru
and collector of DEC equipment
anyone know or try Ultrix 4.2 on the 4000/300?
Will not run. AFAIK the MV3800/3900 / KA655 was the last QBus machine
that could run Ultrix. You have to go with VMS or NetBSD.
--
tschuess,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz
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