[HECnet] Drives for a VAX-11/730

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-07-15 22:32, Bob Armstrong wrote:
Cory Smelosky [b4 at gewt.net] wrote:

You could rig up a MASSBUS-compatible controller that interfaces
with either full SCSI/IDE ....

    No MASSBUS controllers on the 730, remember?   The only MASSBUS controllers
supported by VMS are the RH750 (for the 11/750) and RH780 (for the 11/78x).

The RH780 was also used on the 86x0 machines.

I'd love to see your -11/730 working on HECnet!

    LARGO::, 2.6.   It's been up many times and will be again, as long as the
current disk holds out.

Alternatively, can a -11/730 be booted over the network?

    No, there's no netboot for any 7xx VAX...

Correct, for the most common definition. Of course, if you manage to start some special bootstrap program, if could boot off the net just as well as something else. But VMB on these machines do not have that support, so it's a chicken-and-egg problem most of the time.

	Johnny (Who have netbooted NetBSD on an 8650)