On Tuesday, January 2, 2024 at 11:29:36 AM PST, thomasdzubin--- via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Can I install the KFQSA card in my 4000-200, disconnect the internal disks > from the SHAC and connect the disks to the KFQSA thereby allowing NetBSD >to > run? Oh wait, your "Vax 4000-200" is a KA660 in a BA215? Then the internal DSSI is connected via the 50-pin connector piggybacked on the KA660. Not via the BA430 backplane. Connecting the KFQSA's external DSSI connector to the other end of the DSSI bus, via an external DSSI cable, should still work. The possible problem with just disconnecting the DSSi internal cable from the CPU and leaving it hanging, is no longer terminating that end of the DSSI bus.
