[Info-vax] DEC Multia (UDB) issues

[MG]

On 22-8-2011 23:21, John Wallace wrote:
> Any device not recognised by the SRM cannot be a bootable device. Any
> clearer? Doesn't matter, you worked it out anyway.

It was already clear, I thought you were instead specifically referring
to something.


> Depends on whether you can boot with the default settings it reverts
> to when it loses power. If saving the settings does need battery power
> and the default settings don't work (I can't remember, I haven't had
> an Alpha Multia for a while) then you have to re-enter them each time
> by hand and boot by hand.

That's what I meant.  Okay, that's good to know then.  I think I can
live with(out) that.  (Unless a new battery isn't so expensive, or
buried inside the package of the NVR/TOY IC; as is the case with many
older Sun SPARC workstation-type systems, unfortunately.)


> Wrt the question of a load device, and indeed avoiding the SCSI in
> general: have you considered having the Multia as a cluster satellite
> node? It's not going to be fast but I guess you knew that anyway.

I have mostly I64 systems running.  I don't know where to begin with
that.  Is it even possible?  (I haven't ever looked into that either.)

- MG