[rescue] Vax question

[Brian Hechinger]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 06:29:53PM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> 
> They have a monstrous digitizer hooked up to it, but a week or two, I
> heard something about perhaps getting the digitizer moved to a PC.  I've
> also been hearing some noise about the machine having problems.

ah ha!  it's on it's way out. :)

> BTW, on these things, are DSSI disks mandatory?  I mean, the thing clearly

DSSI is what was "standard" it's what the disks along the top of the machine
would be.  the onboard DSSI isn't supported by NetBSD right now just yet. just
to let you know.

> has SCSI devices hanging off of it.

then you are one lucky SOB.  those things are hard to come by, and usually cost
a lot of $$$ when you do come by them.

> I'll have to mention see what happens to hardware like that to my
> supervisor tomorrow.  It's a bit big for me to stash at home long term
> though (It's smaller than a challenge, crimson, or onyx, but then, I'm
> having a hard time finding room for the gear I already have.)

this is a cool box, you'll want to get that thing running NetBSD asap. :)

-brian