VAX Ethernet (was Re: IDE on Qbus (was Re: Microvax II))

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Tue Oct 17 22:31:08 2000

From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com>
>> Cheap as far as I know. The key thing is despite claims if the DEQNA
>> you have is working, whats the rush to dump it.
>
>Isn't there an issue with VMS obsoleting the DEQNA?


Remember the discussion of a few days ago. Well the rule for VMS
is DEQNA is not obsolete, just unsupported. FYI, unsupported
does not mean there is no driver only that the supplied on has not
been updated or rigerously tested in those version so dont call and
complain if it dont work. It went unsupported with V5.0.

>This one was free, as was the uVAXII it was in (RA81, KDA50, 9Mb, etc)


Use it. The DELQA and DEQNA have nearly identical modes with the delqa
adding a higher performance one(plus reliability). For VMS prior to
7.x it does work and for 7.2 mine seems ok.

Allison
Received on Tue Oct 17 2000 - 22:31:08 BST