The Emulex UC07 Q-bus SCSI controller is supported by NetBSD. It talks MSCP to the VAX, so that's no problem. The UC07 can be configured to use either disks or tapes, but _not_ at the same time. (the UC08 has 2 SCSI controllers for that purpose..)
The UC07/8 adapters do their own low-level format of the disk and map geometries and stuff, and you have to go into its firmware to confgure a new disk with it. its not a very complicated process, the UC07 actually has a simple little menu system in firmware that makes it pretty easy. It will take a while if you have a large disk though! Even if you remove a disk, the UC07 still reports it present (but offline) to any software.
To access the on-board diag/setup program you enter these commands at the chevron prompt:
>>> I >>> D/P/W 20001F40 20 >>> D/P/L 20088000 80000000 >>> D/P/L 20088004 80000001 >>> D/P/W 2000XXXX 1 >>> D/P/W 2000YYYY 3003 >>> D/P/W 2000YYYY 4401 >>> S 80
XXXX and YYYY are offsets depending on the address of the controller.
Address XXXX YYYY 17772150 1468 146A 17772154 146C 146E 17760334 00DC 00DE 17760340 00E0 00E2 17760344 00E4 00E6 17760350 00E8 00EA 17760354 00EC 00EE 17760360 00F0 00F2 17760364 00F4 00F6 17760370 00F8 00FA 17760374 00FC 00FE 17760400 0100 0102 17760404 0104 0106 17760410 0108 010A 17760414 010C 010E 17760420 0110 0112
Please forgive me if there are any typo's.
I have an UC07 in my 3600 and it works great. I just had a small problem with an IBM DORS SCSI drive. It would be detected OK and I could set it up with the diagnostics, but the VAX wouldn't boot from it. It seemed like some initialisation problem of the UC07 and the IBM drive. I swapped it with a HP drive and this works fine.
From: Arno Griffioen, arno at usn.nl
SW3 and/or 4:
CSR SW3/4 1 2 3 4
72150 0 0 0 0
72154 1 0 0 0
60334 0 1 0 0
60340 1 1 0 0
60344 0 0 1 0
60350 1 0 1 0
and so on down to
60420 1 1 1 1
SW1/2
1 off- run on- reset/halt
2 off- enable on- disable
3 reserved
4 off-normal on-loop self test
SW3/4
5 off-TMSCP on-MSCP
6 (mscp only) off-disable autoboot on-enable autoboot
interrupt request level (default is 4 and the manual highly recommends it)
quad wide uco7/8 4 5
scsi bus 1 - jumper PR in out
RS out in
bus 2- LM
MN same as above
on a dual-wide UC07, same story, but they're jumpers TU and UV
on a microVAX, heres how to start the firmware for disks.
first, a handy table
csr XXXX YYYY
72150 1468 146a
72154 146c 146e
60334 00dc 00de
60340 00e0 00e2
60344 00e4 00e6
and so on down to
60420 0110 0112
now at the chevron, enter
i
d/p/w 20001f40 20
d/p/l 20088000 80000000
d/p/l 20088004 80000001
d/p/w 2000XXXX 1
d/p/w 2000YYYY 3003
d/p/w 2000YYYY 4401
pause a second
then
s 80
If that fails, wait a second or two, then try s 80 again.
The firmware is menu driven and conversational, very easy to use.
If anyone still wants a xerox of the manual after this info, let me know.
From: Lord Isildur, mrfusion at crue.jdwarren.com