I was planning on installing OpenBSD on this box from a floppy image however I can just swap the whole board and do a net boot of the installer.
Thanks, Bryan > On Feb 20, 2016, at 7:12 PM, Richard Loken <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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
