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

sorry about the split e-mail. (google crashed on me)
My DSSI bus is as follows:
DSSI-ID          Device
7                     SHAC DSSI controller
6                     KFQSA
1                     RF72
0                     RF73

I also just booted it up and I am running NetBSD 9.1. I can send you a copy
to try on your systems as I had to MOP boot  it to get it to see my
devices.
If I remember correctly it was an issue with the serial device and the
amount of memory I had on the q-bus.
It has been about 4 years.....
Jim

On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 12:04 PM James Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>
>