Building a PDP-11 for the first time

From: Curt vendel <curt_at_atarimuseum.com>
Date: Thu Dec 11 16:37:53 2003

MSCP controllers and drives should all appear to the OS as DUxx type drives,
so it shouldn't be an issue.


Curt


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerome H. Fine" <jhfinexgs2_at_compsys.to>
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Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: Building a PDP-11 for the first time


> >Christopher Cureau wrote:
>
> > The M8190 was salvaged from a PDP-11/23 backplane where it had been
> > running, so I assumed that it would work in a QBUS setup. Is there an
easy
> > way to tell whether the card is really Unibus or QBUS?
>
> Jerome Fine replies:
>
> There is a list of DEC boards available. I can't remember the
> address. It lists the M8190-AB as Qbus.
>
> > 2.11BSD, is the disk controller supported?
>
> Probably. MSCP on DEC PDP-11 systems seems
> to be supported by most operating systems that run
> on a PDP-11. Most 3rd party Qbus disk controllers
> and host adapters, especially SCSI host adapters
> supported MSCP since their use was targeted to
> function under DEC operating systems on the PDP-11
> and microVAX II systems.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Jerome Fine
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