> >> Now how on earth are you getting a FWD card to work in PWS500au's, or maybe
> >> I should ask which card? That's a KZPSA isn't it? I tried the KZPSA I
> >> just got in my PWS433au, and it wouldn't boot, as it complained about an
> >> unrecognized card.
> >
> >I'm using KZPSA cards.
>
> OK, that's wierd, looks like I'll have to do some inquiring on comp.os.vms.
I did not have to do anything special with my KZPSA cards (except
switch one to ID 6 so I could SCSI cluster the systems).
> >I've got an ISP1040A built-in as well
> >on one of the PWS systems and an Intraserver U2W/Ethernet card
> >in the other. The Intraserver is a leftover from when I was
> >using a PC164LX system. I'm going to replace the board set
> >in the other system with a set that includes the ISP1040A.
> >At that point I'll remove the Intraserver card. That's
> >another reason I want to find a couple of empty 5.25" SBB
> >cases; I want to avoid trying to use the built-in ISP1040A
> >controllers with external devices (which is not supported
> >but may work).
>
> You're going to remove the Intraserver card?!?!?! If it was me I'd be
> putting a couple decent sized U2W SCSI disks on that sucker, instead of
> messing around with UW or worse SCSI disks! I'd really like to add an
> Intraserver card with a 3rd party tower of Ultra160 disks, that's my
> long-term plan.
The Intraserver card has a bug with systems with a Pyxis chipset
that requires a special patched driver. So my long-term plan is to
buy a DS10 and use the Intraserver card there.
> BTW, it sounds like your ISP1040A is on the Motherboard itself? My
> controller is a PCI card, while running Narrow SCSI devices off the
> connector on the board isn't supported, it works. You can plug your UW
> SCSI disks to the 68-pin connector, and Narrow to the 50-pin connector.
The ISP1040A is on the slot board. There were two different revisions
(that I know of) of the PWS-au systems. One has the Intel I/O chipset
on the mainboard, no SCSI on the slot board, and no USB ports. The other
has a Cypress I/O chipset on the mainboard, ISP1040A SCSI on the slot
board, and two USB ports. You can't mix-and-match the mainboards and
the slot boards, either (I tried, it didn't work, confirmed on c.o.v).
I will need to keep a SCSI CDROM on a different controller if I can't
find an SBB case, and the DLT on one of the systems.
> What are you using for Graphics Cards? I've got an Elsa Gloria in my
> PWS433au, and it totally sucks. I get definite ripple on the left side
> when scrolling web pages in Netscape, and some problems when doing other
> things.
Right now I am using a VT525 with a 19" monitor. I was using an Else
Gloria, but the speed was bad enough that I just decided to do any
DECwindows stuff using my Linux system as the display. I did buy an
Oxygen VX1 PCI, but the current driver doesn't work right with pre-
21264 CPUs. The card will display, but the system is so slow it
takes five minutes to log in to the console to kill the DECwindows
server.
> >From what I've read the big difference between the DLTx000 drives and
> >the equivalent TZ8x drives is the TZ8x drives will read TK50/TK70 tapes,
> >but I haven't tried yet. I suppose one could try to write the TZ8x
> >firmware in the DLTx000 drives, but I'd rather just buy a cheap TK70
> >off eBay than risk destroying my DLT4000.
>
> That's the difference, however, as far as I know, it's not a firmware
> issue, it's a calibration issue. I'm not worried about reading TK70's
> really, but it would be nice to be able to read TK50's, still I've a TZ30
> for that.
Well, I definitely will not attempt any calibration changes on my
DLT drive just to be able to read tapes a used $50 drive will read.
> >The AS200 4/233 was my first Alpha (my wife bought it for me
> >to replace my VS3100, which I still have). I followed that
> >with a couple of PC164 motherboards, then a PC164SX (which
> >can't run VMS, so I used it for Digital Unix until I sold
> >it), followed by a PC164LX, followed by three PWS500au systems
> >(one of which has a ruined case but was bought as it had a
> >2MB cache module). I have someone digging up a replacement
> >case, and I'm on the lookout for two more 2MB (or 4MB if
> >I get lucky) cache modules. The PWS500au systems displaced
> >the PC164 and PC164LX systems for VMS, so the PC164LX is
> >my Tru64 system now. I also have a VS4000-60 running. The
> >two VS3100 systems are kept around just-in-case, and I have
> >a MVII which I'm mentioned is in line for a PDP-11 transplant
> >as soon as I find a CPU and memory.
>
> Sounds like as bad of a menagerie as I've got around here, though instead
> of the PC164 stuff I've got a DEC3000/300LX and the AlphaStation 500/333.
> I just unlobotomized and increased the PDP-11/73 I've got in a MVII BA123
> Chassis, I got a quad-hieght /73 board for it in place of the dual-hieght
> /73 I'd been using and some other stuff. It's *SO* nice finally running
> with a full blown board, and having the console at 38,400 instead of 9600!
Are you willing to sell the old /73 board? I'd rather have a slow /73
than none at all.
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Eric Dittman
dittman_at_dittman.net
Received on Tue May 01 2001 - 12:54:50 BST