Gad, I'm beginning to get a REALLY good idea of what searching for
tough-to-find's can be like!
Here's the story. I have several MicroVAX II's. I need a way -- ANY
way! -- to boot from a CD-ROM on one or all of them.
I NEED at least one of the following solutions.
1). (probably a pipe dream) An Andromeda Systems SCDC Q-bus/SCSI host
adapter. I don't even care if it doesn't work; I can get it refurbished
by the manufacturer. However, $2,500 new is way out of my range.
OR (2): ANY QBus-to-SCSI board that can boot from a CD-ROM drive (I
have a DEC RRD42).
OR (3): A DEC RRD40 CD-ROM drive and controller (the early RRD's used a
dedicated controller that, AFAIK, was compatible with any QBUS machine).
OR (4): A later model of VAXen (maybe a 3500, 4000, or 5000 series)
that is designed to accomodate SCSI from the get-go, and can boot from a
CD-ROM.
As a last-gasp possibility, I do have a functional TK30 tape drive. Any
chance that, if I copy the Ultrix distribution CD to a CompacTape II
cartridge, it would be bootable by the MicroVAX?
Fellow DEC'ers, I'm getting desperate. Please help me out if you can!
I've got at least three systems sitting idle and gathering dust because
I can't boot a CD on them at the moment.
Thanks in advance. Please reply to my other address: kyrrin_at_wizards.net
==Bruce Lane
http://www.wizards.net/technoid
Received on Thu Jul 24 1997 - 15:50:14 BST