[HECnet] VS4000/90: Up and running!

[Jordi Guillaumes i Pons]

El 08/02/2013, a les 23:14, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> va escriure:

And the problem is just that the boot rom uses a more restricted disk block addressing, limiting the booting to disks of less than 1G. (Actually, you can boot from larger disks as well, as long as the boot rom don't need to read from anything above 1G.)

Nice to know. IIRC I read about the firmware dropping the high bits of the block address so at some point in time the writes against the disk would "wrap around" and trash the first 4GBs... but it seems its quite an urban legend :)

BTW, This is a nice sight:

$ sh net
VAX/VMS Network status for local node   7.61 BITXOO on   8-FEB-2013 23:26:08.76

The next hop to the nearest area router is node   7.60 BITXOV.


              Node                   Links   Cost   Hops     Next Hop to Node

        7.61     BITXOO             0         0         0         (Local)     ->   7.61     BITXOO
        7.6       MBSERV             0         3         1         UNA-0         ->   7.6       MBSERV
        7.60     BITXOV             0         3         1         UNA-0         ->   7.60     BITXOV
        7.64     BITXO1             0         3         1         UNA-0         ->   7.64     BITXO1
        7.65     BITXO2             0         3         1         UNA-0         ->   7.65     BITXO2
        7.67     BITXO4             0         3         1         UNA-0         ->   7.67     BITXO4
        7.68     BITXO5             0         3         1         UNA-0         ->   7.68     BITXO5
        7.70     BITXOT             0         3         1         UNA-0         ->   7.70     BITXOT
        7.71     BITXOR             0         3         1         UNA-0         ->   7.71     BITXOR
        7.72     BITXOM             0         3         1         UNA-0         ->   7.72     BITXOM
        7.74     BITXOW             0         3         1         UNA-0         ->   7.74     BITXOW
        7.79     BITXT0             0         3         1         UNA-0         ->   7.79     BITXT0                 

Now, if I could just fix poor BITXO3 (which is a VS 3100 with a toasted cache in the mobo...).


Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
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