[HECnet] Boot VAX from Alpha host Infoserver?

[Steve Davidson]

Fred,

How many disk drives do you have in the 90A?   I may have another idea -
a variation on a theme as it were...

-Steve 

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From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On
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Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 21:37
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Subject: RE: [HECnet] Boot VAX from Alpha host Infoserver?

On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 21:18 -0500, Steve Davidson wrote:

Did you by chance enable broadcasts to your system console on the
Alpha
so that you could monitor the actual requests that the Alpha
will/should
(hopefully) see?   This might give a clue to what is missing/wrong...

(resent because I think I'm subscribed to the mailing list with a couple

variants of misernet.net ....)

Hi Steve,

Yes I did.   In fact I see the "load request" start and succeed when it
grabs the ISL_SVAX_073 file - but other than that, there are no other
broadcasts while logged in as SYSTEM with reply/enable set.

I have found a site with jumper settings for this NEC drive, but I don't
see a reference to sector size.   I think I'm going to modify the
"factory reserved" jumpers one at a time, thinking perhaps one of those
is it.

Fred