[Info-vax] Graphics cards and monitors, was: Re: VSI Software and Stark Gaming

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-08-19 02:27, Cap Taillat wrote:
> 512 MB's sat in my cubicle (ZKO-1) for a year while waiting for the
> 8600 firmware/software to support it. At $2K a mega-pop retail those days,
> I wished I could have banked it simply to earn the interest.
>
> I would have returned it. Honestly, I would!

:-)

You don't happen to have any such modules still stashed anywhere, or 
know somewhere there might be any? (Says the guy with a running 8650...)

The 8600 memory diagnostics do warn that testing a fully loaded machine 
(260 Meg) will take quite a while, and will emit some diagnostic message 
every 20s or so. Which obviously tells me that DEC did test that large 
configs. And with the 64M modules, 260 Meg was a practical limit as you 
can only fit four such modules in the memory backplane. Each module 
takes two slots, and there are 8 slots. The 260 Megs comes from the fact 
that the memory in slot 0 will not cover any additional slots and slot 7 
will be free. And the 4 Meg memory modules only require a single slot in 
size.

I, sadly enough only have 3 16 Meg modules, and the rest is 4 meg 
modules. The 16 Meg modules also cover two slots.

dmesg from my slightly modified NetBSD system:

NetBSD 5.99.44 (Krille) #387: Mon Jan 24 18:15:12 CET 2011
         root at GW.SoftJAR.SE:/usr/obj/sys/arch/vax/compile/Krille
VAX 8650
total memory = 61436 KB
avail memory = 56876 KB
timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: KA865, S/N 116, Rev. C, manufactured in Galway, Ireland.
cpu0: FPA present: type 1, serial number 0
Memory slot 0 (@0x00000000): 16 Mbytes.
Memory slot 2 (@0x01000000): 16 Mbytes.
Memory slot 4 (@0x02000000): 16 Mbytes.
Memory slot 5 (@0x03000000): 4 Mbytes.
Memory slot 6 (@0x03400000): 4 Mbytes.
Memory slot 7 (@0x03800000): 4 Mbytes.
I/O adapter 0 (@0x20000000): 32 Mbytes.
Unused address space: 932 Mbytes.
abus0 at mainbus0
sbi0 at abus0: SBIA Rev. 0, base address 0x20000000
uba0 at sbi0 tr3: DW780
uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 774 ipl 15
mscpbus0 at uda0: version 5 model uda50a
mscpbus0: DMA burst size set to 4
de0 at uba0 csr 174510 vec 120 ipl 15: delua, hardware address 
08:00:2b:03:39:e5
uba1 at sbi0 tr5: DW780
uda1 at uba1 csr 172150 vec 774 ipl 15
mscpbus1 at uda1: version 5 model uda50a
mscpbus1: DMA burst size set to 4
ci at sbi0 tr14 unsupported
timecounter: Timecounter "clockinterrupt" frequency 100 Hz quality 0
timecounter: Timecounter "mfpr" frequency 1000000 Hz quality 100
ra0 at mscpbus0 drive 0: RA73
ra1 at mscpbus0 drive 1: RA73
ra2 at mscpbus0 drive 2: RA73
ra3 at mscpbus0 drive 3: RA73
ra4 at mscpbus1 drive 4: RA73
ra5 at mscpbus1 drive 5: RA73
ra6 at mscpbus1 drive 6: RA73
ra7 at mscpbus1 drive 7: RA73
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
ra0: size 3920490 sectors
ra1: size 3920490 sectors
ra2: size 3920490 sectors
ra3label: 0
: no disk label: size 3920490 sectors
ra4: size 3920490 sectors
ra5: size 3920490 sectors
ra6: size 3920490 sectors
ra7: size 3920490 sectors
boot device: ra0
root on ra0a dumps on ra0b
root file system type: ffs

	Johnny