Re: Is pmax alive?

I have a DS 5000 pmin 33MHz, which I have almost given up upgrading
its NetBSD installation (now several years old).

I may be tempted to give it another final try, otherwise it'll
probably end its life in the dumpster... (it served as the development
platform for a colleague and myself for a few years running hpux, but
after that I revived it for NetBSD for several releases).

- Erik

2016-03-05 21:10 GMT+01:00 Tobias Nygren <[email protected]>:
> 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