[Info-vax] MicroVAX/VMS newbie, couple of questions
Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
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Fri Sep 25 06:17:17 EDT 2009
En/na John E. Malmberg ha escrit:
>
> If it has a KZQSA, then it is a rare beast. Even now the KZQSA may be
> worth more than the rest of the hardware combined. And I think you need
> to be at a VAX 3500 to have a console that knows how to boot a KZQSA drive.
>
> Even better if it has a third party Q-BUS SCSI controller.
>
Ooops, you are probably right. I have a KZQSA on my 3300, and although
VMS "sees" and can use any drive connected to it, the console doesn't
know anything about SCSI so can't boot from it.
I was confused because my other real VAX is a 4000-200 which can boot
from SCSI without any problem at all.
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