DECstation 5000/240

From: Peter C. Wallace <pcw_at_mesanet.com>
Date: Thu Sep 12 18:30:00 2002

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Doc Shipley wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Andreas Krennmair wrote:
>
> > * John Honniball <coredump_at_gifford.co.uk> [02-09-12 22:28]:
> > >
> > > I've recently acquired a DECstation 5000/240, a MIPS-based workstation
> > > made in 1992. I've got it to respond to the serial console (by
> > > removing the frame buffer card) and now I want to try to net-boot it.
> >
> > Why net-booting? I'm always booting VAXstation (I know, that's different
> > hardware, but from pretty much the same time, and I suppose from the
> > same engineers) via an SCSI CD drive. You need one that works with 512-byte
> > sectors. Fortunately, I have a drive available made by DEC for
> > VAXstations, but I tried it once with another drive we use at work to
> > install old Sun Sparc machines and SGI machines.
>
> The DS5000/240 has no internal SCSI interface or drive mounts. It's
> less of a PITA to netboot than to manage external storage, even if you
> *do* have that proprietary DEC external cable.

Actually unlike the DS3100 and VS3100, the DS5000/240 has a standard SCSI-2
external drive connector...

>
> Doc, who would like a firmware upgrade too.
>
>

Peter Wallace
Received on Thu Sep 12 2002 - 18:30:00 BST