[Info-vax] Architecture questions.

[Craig A. Berry]

On 1/10/24 4:22 PM, Rob wrote:

> For some reason the system is detected as a model 164SX, despite seeming 
> to have a 21164A (according to the stock firmware diagnostics on the 
> front panel of the system), a symbios SCSI chip 
<snip>>  From there, I'm able to bootstrap OpenVMS, Tru64 and Linux from 
CD, but
>   OpenVMS freezes on the copyright notice 

I might've missed it but is that CD-ROM connected to the Symbios
controller?  My memory is fuzzy but I think that might be the one where
the OpenVMS driver had a poison pill such that it would take itself
offline if the adapter was not DEC/Compaq-branded.