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- From: cmr@world.std.com (Charles M Richmond)
- Subject: Re: An Ultrix novice needs help
- Message-ID: <By0ErG.BnF@world.std.com>
- Organization: Integrated International Systems Corp. One Longfellow Place, Suite 3309, Boston, Ma.
- References: <1992Nov19.233449.9481@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Nov20.013759.9119@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 10:06:52 GMT
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- alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov19.233449.9481@midway.uchicago.edu>, trgs@quads.uchicago.edu (T. R. Gowrishankar) writes:
- >>
- >>We recently replaced VMS 5.5 with Ultrix V4.1 on our VaxStation 3500. As
- >>expected, things have not turned out as they ought to be. I have some
- >>specific questions, any help will be appreciated.
- >>
- >>1. We have a read/write optical disk that is not recognized during boot time,
- >> even though we were using it when we had VMS. The disk was refered to as
- >> dka0:
- >>
- >Let's see... The VMS DK driver is the SCSI disk class driver. This
- >means that the disk is a SCSI disk. The VAXstation 3500 is a Q-bus
- >based machine with all I/O stuff on the Q-bus. That means you must
- >have some sort of Q-bus SCSI adapter. The only remotely supported one
- >on VMS is the KZQSA and that isn't supported by ULTRIX. If the adapter
- >is some 3rd party thing, then you need to discuss with them whether a
- >driver is available for ULTRIX.
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- I just took a quick peak in scsi_data.c , and the KZQSA is still defined
- there. Are you saying that it is supported for MIPS (mea culpa) but that
- VAX Ultrix does not support it?
-
- Charlie
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