On Dec 3, 15:47, allisonp_at_world.std.com wrote:
> > I am trying to install NetBSD on my MicroVAX 3100. I would like to
> > install it on the RZ56 which is in its own expansion box. The problem,
> > or so I am told, is that the drive as it is needs to be told to spin up
> > and NetBSD doesn't do that.
>
> Do a >>>show dev as that has to spin it up to talk to it.
>
> > It has been suggested that there might be a jumper to tell it to spin
up
> > automatically. Does anyone here know if that is the case, and if so,
> > where it is?
>
> No there isn't that I can remember.
Alison is probably correct. Some DEC drives do have a jumper to select
spinup on power-up, but the RZ23/24/25 definitely don't (the original
Connor drives do, but DEC changed the firmware) and some notes I have here
suggest the RZ55/56 have different firmware too.
What you'll get out of the drive depends on what the OS is trying to do: a
SCSI MODE SENSE command will work fine, but you won't be able to do
anything more interesting until the disk has spun up (which is done by
issuing a START UNIT command). DEC used to have a utility called RZSPINUP
to do this, but any SCSI utility that can issue a START UNIT command would
do as well.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Fri Dec 03 1999 - 16:02:26 GMT