[Info-vax] Additional ethernet (e.g. 100BASE-TX) NIC for Multia/UDB?

[Hans Bachner]

MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 29-jan-2013 21:51, Hans Bachner wrote:
<snip> 
>> Beyond that, the DEXGA needs OpenVMS V7.3-1 at least, and the Multia
>> support kits that I know about end with V7.2.
> 
> I had V7.3 running on it,

You take me by surprise - do the V7.2 drivers (network, graphics) work 
with 7.3 as well?

> but nowadays I'm running Tru64 UNIX V5.1B
> (r2650, at the moment) on it.  Unlike VMS, Tru64 UNIX doesn't seem
> to have problems with the system and installs happily on it...
> 
> It's too bad that the original DEC employee 'midnight hack' files
> aren't to be found.

Are you talking about the sources?
The binaries are available on the Freeware V5 CD.

>> [...] I'm curious enough to grab a Multia from the
>> shelf, blow the dust off and just try it - but I won't have the time
>> for the next few weeks :-(
> 
> That would be excellent, I wonder what the outcome will be!  Say, what
> else do you have in your Multia/UDB?  (Like in terms of storage,
> memory and so forth.)

The one at home has a 233 MHz CPU, 152 MB of memory (added 128 to the 
original 24), an internal 518 MB Toshiba SCSI disk drive with Windows NT 
SP6 (several years ago, this was the PDC of my home Windows domain), and 
an external disk enclosure with two more disks - one with additional 
Windows file, and one with OpenVMS on it.

I don't remember the exact configuration of the other one (the one on 
the shelf in the office), but it is a slower model (166 MHz) with a 
single internal disk and OpenVMS on it. You can find it in operation 
here:

<http://b.it.co.at/cluster/IT-Symp-2006_Cluster.png>

We built this cluster during the 2006 DECUS symposium in Düsseldorf, 
Germany. Half a dozen folks brought hardware and we just connected it to 
a three architecture, mixed physical/virtual, grossly mixed version, 
highly unsupported cluster :-)

Hans.