[rescue] VAX hardware (wanted)

[Dan Williams]

Jochen Kunz wrote:

>On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 21:01:27 +0000
>Dan Williams <dan_williams at ntlworld.com> wrote:
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>>I didn't think there where any dssi controllers supported by Netbsd,
>>has that changed now ?
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>The "on board DSSI controllers" are not supported. DSSI is a parallel
>version of CI (Cluster Interconnect), not a predecessor to SCSI. A DSSI
>disk shows up as an independent cluster node with an attached disk. So
>you need a full CI/SCA subsystem to support this configurations.
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>The KFQSA QBus DSSI adapter presents a DSSI disk (or tape) as a normal
>(T)MSCP device to the QBus. MSCP is well supported in BSD since the old
>4.x BSD days.
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>       Jochen
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I've got a 4000/500  with an external disk pack, it has 6x2gb dssi 
drives in it. Can this be used under netbsd with the qbus controller.

Thanks
Dan