Re: VAX 4000-200 in BA215 chassis. Will NetBSD support the built-in DSSI disks if I install a KFQSA?
Johnny Billquist <[email protected]>
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That should work just fine. The disks don't care which controller they
are connected to. And they don't know where they have been mounted
physically.
With that said, I seem to remember I had some issues with the KFQSA when
using it. Worked for a while, but something got stuck after a while in
NetBSD. Probably some bug in a driver interacting with that specific
controller.
Johnny
On 2024-01-02 20:08, thomas dzubin wrote:
> I know NetBSD does NOT support the SHAC DSSI controller on the KA660
> CPU cards, but if I take a KFQSA controller from one of my other VAX,
> can the chassis "internal" DSSI disks be disconnected and then
> re-connected to the KFQSA card bypassing the SHAC chips on the CPU
> card?
>
> I've got a couple of VAX 4000-200 boxes, but they only run OpenVMS
> now, but I'd like to install NetBSD on them.
>
> has anyone tried this?
> Happy 2024 everyone,
>
> Thomas Dzubin
> Calgary, Vancouver, and Saskatoon
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