[Info-vax] booting vaxstation off alpha

[Hans Vlems]

On 11 feb, 17:55, Stephen Hoffman <seaoh... at hoffmanlabs.invalid>
wrote:
> On 2013-02-11 15:22:57 +0000, Bob Koehler said:
>
> > In article
> > <8da55823-8896-4ef9-a1e9-80ce41019... at fv9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
> > Hans Vlems <hvl... at freenet.de> writes:
>
> >> The last paragraph reads as if DECnet isn't available over DSSI, did I
> >> get that right?
> >> (obviously not because it is....).
> >> So what wasn't available over DSSI which was over the good old CI?
> >> Hans
>
> >    The full WAN capabilities of DECnet are not available over DSSI,
> >    but you can set host to a DSSI controller and interact with it.
>
> That capability is not DECnet-based — that's DUP — and that's why I
> expressly called that out.
>
> On the more "recent" VAX boxes, you can connect directly to DSSI
> widgets from the console.
>
> --
> Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC

The DSSI cluster is up and running. Even the RF31 still works, it is
the quorum disk for the
cluster.
I did a quick copy: a file of 540 blocks (250 kB) took 4 seconds to
copy across the DSSI bus
using FAL. Thats 60 kB/s or 500 kb/s, 5% of what it's ethernet
theoretically can do.
I haven't looked at the DT* tools yet. Must find manual first.
Hans