Re: Is pmax alive?

On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 19:32:51 +0100
Felix Deichmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> is pmax still alive and a working port (it is Tier II at least, but is
> that correct)? I cannot see real activity on the mailing list for
> months and years, and last posts even imply that the port could be
> broken on some machines or even altogether.
> 
> I could have the chance to get one of the "faster" DECstations, but
> see no reason unless there is hope to have or get a working port in
> the near future. :/

Hum. I have a DECStation 5000/240 and a SCSI disk with a post-it note
labeled NetBSD/pmax on it. Can't recall what version it is. Not earlier
than 4.0 or at worst 3.1. It worked OK at the time.
Managed to cobble up a narrow->wide SCSI adapter from three cables,
but it isn't booting. The ROM sees rz0, though. Trying to hook up
the disk to a different machine now to see if there's anything readable
on still it. If not I will try to install on it.
(I do recall that netboot is broken on this machine. The only way
to install it is to disklabel and installboot on a different host.)

Stay tuned ...

-Tobias