On 12/6/2017 6:55 PM, Jon Elson via cctech wrote:
On 12/03/2017 10:28 AM, Aaron Jackson via cctech wrote:
I'm looking after a VAX 4000 for a friend, which has a SCSI Q-bus card
(M5976). If the card did not have the large metal face, would it work in
a Q-bus PDP-11? We are not going to potentially ruin a card by trying
this, but I am interested to know if this is the case.
As long as the PDP supports the 22-bit Q-bus, it should work
perfectly. The metal plate can be removed.
Jon
The board will probably work in a 22-bit Q-bus, as you say, but only for
certain values of "work" -- it won't catch fire or anything, but to the
best of my knowledge the M5976 isn't an MSCP device and I don't know
that any PDP-11 bootstraps or OSes know how to talk to it. So unless
you want to write a driver for it, it's probably not going to be much use.
- Josh
