On 5 Jan, Jeff Hellige wrote:
> Then NetBSD should work fine with the DQ686 (though I read it
> as D0686 on my board) and a Maxtor XT-8380E in my MV II?
Yes. I used the DQ686 with a KA630 and a KA655 under NetBSD and it just
worked.
> It might be interesting to try NetBSD loaded onto the 2nd one, if it
> could be netbooted to do the install.
All my NetBSD installations on VAXen are done by netboot. I never used
the install programm. I use a minimal NFS root to do the disklabel,
newfs, tar, MAKEDEV, ... procedure by hand. See the NetBSD web site for
a HowTo...
Perhaps you should do a low level reformat and bad block scan of the
disk? You know the magic words to invoke the controller setup?
--
tschuess,
Jochen
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Received on Sun Jan 06 2002 - 04:24:00 GMT