>Yes. I used the DQ686 with a KA630 and a KA655 under NetBSD and it just
>worked.
Looking at the compatibility listing, it didn't look like it
supported much else other than the standard MFM drives. It's good to
hear that I was wrong.
>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...
Cool...I'll have to check it out. It'll be nice to have an
alternative available.
>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?
That would probably be a good idea. Both disks were
installed into the MVII prior to 1990 and it was used for realtime
data aquisition in a production environment up until it's removal in
1990. I don't have any docs or anything on the DQ686 so, no, I don't
know anything about it's setup.
Thanks
Jeff
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