On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 06:05, Bill Janssen wrote: > I have a VME box with a MVME 162-222 and a MVME 320B-1. The 162 I > know something about but I know very little about the 320B. > > The 162 does not have disk support so the 320B would have to provide the > disk > interface. > > Does the Debian distribution for the 162 have the "smarts" to interface > with the 320 card?
The MVME320 is an MFM (ST506) hard disk and floppy controller, for which no free operating system I know has any support (Debian, NetBSD, OpenBSD). Even if it did, I don't think you'd have much fun with it. I doubt you'll be able to find any MFM hard disk with a reasonable size. I've never seen any bigger than 80 MB or so. A quick Google gives a maximum of 159MB with the Maxtor XT-2190. The card supports a maximum of 2 drives. But like I said, there is no driver for it, nor any documentation. The card is listed in my 1986/87 edition of the Motorola Semiconductors "VMEmodule DATA MANUAL" but there's not much info there. Debian (or rather the Linux kernel) doesn't support any SCSI VME cards as far as I know. NetBSD supports some (mostly Sun boards and a Xylogics board) and OpenBSD supports the MVME328 SCSI controller. Kind regards, Kars.
