On Sat, 20 Feb 2016, Bryan Everly wrote:
Also I found a SCSI only controller on eBay for $30 that did have the eprom in it so I picked it up. I will try it and see if I can at least see the SCSI bus and drive. If that works then what do you think my odds are of being able to move the eprom over to the SCSI/MFM board and getting my floppy working?
I vote against moving the eprom to your controller, I expect they are not the same. If you can get the SCSI controller working then pretend you don't have a floppy drive, it would be more useful to install a CDrom drive, I have seen VAX/VMS distros on cds and on TK50 tapes but never had call to want a floppy drive. I think the 3100 will be very particular about the model of CD drive that you attach. So I looked in mine and sent you a couple pictures of the SCSI controller which does not have a floppy controller on it. I have a couple manuals for the VS3100 but I cannot find them at the moments. Since I had the box open, I removed the NiCd battery pack which is not leaking but just might do that some day. I am interested in knowing what is gained by having an floppy drive since most VAXstations do not seem to have one. I have worked mostly with large VAXen: the VAX 8600, 8650, 8820, 4000 model 300, and 4000 model 505A as well as two little VAXstations: the 2000 and the 3100 and none of them had a floppy drive. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Athabasca, Alberta Canada : heads are naked!" ** [email protected] ** : - Arthur Black
