Fix for 4.3BSD-Quasijarus bootstrap on CMD SCSI controllers

[David Brownlee]

On 4 January 2017 at 08:13, Holm Tiffe <holm at freibergnet.de> wrote:
> David Brownlee wrote:
>
>> On 3 January 2017 at 20:11, David Brownlee <abs at absd.org> wrote:
>> > On 3 January 2017 at 15:50, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
>> >>     > From: Josh Dersch
>> >>
>> >>     > Thought I'd share this fix with you all just in case someone in the
>> >>     > future might make use of it.
>> >>
>> >> To help disseminate it, I uploaded the fix to the Computer History wiki:
>> >>
>> >>   http://gunkies.org/wiki/CDU-710/M_disk_controller
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>     > From: Lars Brinkhoff
>> >>
>> >>     > There's no central repository for fixes like these?
>> >>
>> >> Well, the CH wiki would be a good place, but creating new accounts on it is
>> >> proving to be difficult.
>> >>
>> >> I'm trying to get ahold of one of the two bureacrats, to make me an admin
>> >> (I've been one on Wikipedia since the Devonian), so I can create accounts for
>> >> people, but so far no luck.
>> >>
>> >>         Noel
>> >
>> > Would it make sense for someone to import it to github?
>> >
>> > If nothing else it should be be easy enough to start with 0, then
>> > update to 0a 0b and then 0c. so we have what history is available.
>> >
>> > (checks github)
>> >
>> > Aha - I see that johnwfinigan has already put up a 0c, though it
>> > doesn't seem to have the 0, 0a & 0b history
>> > https://github.com/johnwfinigan/4.3BSD-quasijarus0c/commits/master
>> >
>> > Actually I might just do the 0..0c history into a github entry myself,
>> > then anyone else can just {v,}fork and take it from there as desired :-p
>>
>> No sooner said than done :)
>>
>> In case it proves of interest to anyone. Happy for it to be forked
>> (obviously!) or to have patches or pull requests punted back to me
>>
>> https://github.com/abs0/4.3BSD-Quasijarus
>>
>> David
>
> Could please someone check this file:
>
> http://www.tiffe.de/Robotron/PDP-VAX/VAX/4BSD/Distributions/4.3/qjsrc-se53pra0.tar.gz
> (or this one:
> http://www.tiffe.de/Robotron/PDP-VAX/VAX/4BSD/Distributions/4.3/qjsrc-se53pra0.tar.Z)
> against the repo?
>
> If I remember correctly it contains some patches from Michael Sokolov not
> contained in 0c.
> I've had some conversations with him in the past, had a 0c running on a
> KA630 System with Emulex UC08 and a 8Gig Tandberg Tape drive.

Great - will merge them in :)