Re: VAX 4000-200 in BA215 chassis. Will NetBSD support the built-in DSSI disks if I install a KFQSA?

Hi Thomas,
How far did you get?
It has been a while since I have hopped on the port-vax mailing list, and I
was hoping that you got the answers you were looking for.
I have a VAX 4000-200 with the KFQSA controller looped into the onboard
DSSI bus and it is booting my 3 local drives just fine.
I had to change the controller ID for the SHAC to 6 as you can't have the
onboard and the KFQSA at the same address. But I have it booting NetBSD 9.0
and I am trying to build 10.0 release now.
I can send pictures of the setup if you need them.
Here is my DSSI bus setup.
DSSI ID

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