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Date: 2026-08-18 09:50:30
From: Technoid Mutant
Description: VAXstation 4000/60 40MB Zuluscsiblaster
VAXStation# reboot
Aug 18 05:19:53 VAXStation reboot: rebooted by technoid
Aug 18 05:19:54 VAXStation syslogd[552]: Exiting on signal 15
[ 703.9562169] syncing disks... done
[ 704.0361681] unmounting file systems...
[ 705.6261722] unmounting done
[ 705.6360965] turning off swap... done
83 BOOT SYS
-DKA0
>> NetBSD/vax boot [1.12 (Mon Dec 16 13:08:11 UTC 2024)] <<
>> Press any key to abort autoboot 5
?02 EXT HLT
PC= 2004A8C1 PSL= 04140000
>>> show config
KA46-A V1.2-343-V4.0
[_MAC_XXXXXXXXXX]
40MB
DEVNBR DEVNAM INFO
------ -------- --------------------------
1 NVR OK
2 LCG OK
HR - 4 PLN FB - V1.1
3 DZ OK
4 CACHE OK
5 MEM OK
40MB = SY=8MB, S0/1=32MB, S2/3=0MB, S4/5=0MB
6 FPU OK
7 IT OK
8 SYS OK
9 NI OK
10 SCSI OK
6-INITR
11 AUD OK
>>> show dev
VMS/VMB ADDR DEVTYPE NUMBYTES RM/FX WP DEVNAM REV
------- ---- ------- -------- ----- -- ------ ---
ESA0 [_MAC_XXXXXXXXXX]
DKA0 A/0/0 DISK 0.00KB FX HARDDRI 2.3B
DKA100 A/1/0 DISK 4.29GB FX HARDDRI 2.3B
DKA200 A/2/0 DISK 4.29GB FX HARDDRI 2.3B
DKA300 A/3/0 RODISK 447.25MB RM WP CDROM 2.3B
DKA400 A/4/0 DISK 4.29GB FX HARDDRI 2.3B
DKA500 A/5/0 DISK 4.29GB FX HARDDRI 2.3B
..HostID.. A/6 INITR
DKA700 A/7/0 DISK 4.29GB FX HARDDRI 2.3B
>>> boot
-DKA0
>> NetBSD/vax boot [1.12 (Mon Dec 16 13:08:11 UTC 2024)] <<
>> Press any key to abort autoboot 0
nfs_open: must mount first.
open netbsd.vax: Device not configured
> boot netbsd
2589812+125356 [206960+196589]=0x2f9a58
[ 1.0000000] Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
[ 1.0000000] 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013,
[ 1.0000000] 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023,
[ 1.0000000] 2024
[ 1.0000000] The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.
[ 1.0000000] Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
[ 1.0000000] The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
[ 1.0000000] NetBSD 10.1 (TechNoiDs_VAX_KA46) #0: Tue Aug 18 08:49:20 UTC 2026
[ 1.0000000] root@BSDCompiler:/home/technoid/netbsd-vax/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/obj/TechNoiDs_VAX_KA46
[ 1.0000000] VAXstation 4000/60
[ 1.0000000] total memory = 40560 KB
[ 1.0000000] avail memory = 35692 KB
[ 1.0000000] mainbus0 (root)
[ 1.0000000] cpu0 at mainbus0: KA46, Mariah, 2KB L1 cache, 256KB L2 cache
[ 1.0000000] vsbus0 at mainbus0
[ 1.0000000] vsbus0: 32K entry DMA SGMAP at PA 0x4c0000 (VA 0x804c0000)
[ 1.0000000] vsbus0: interrupt mask 0
[ 1.0000000] le0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200e0000 vec 770 ipl 17 maskbit 1 buf 0x0-0xffff
[ 1.0000000] le0: address [_MAC_XXXXXXXXXX]
[ 1.0000000] le0: 32 receive buffers, 8 transmit buffers
[ 1.0000000] dz0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200a0000 vec 124 ipl 17 maskbit 4
[ 1.0000000] dz0: 4 lines
[ 1.0000000] lkkbd0 at dz0
[ 1.0000000] lkkbd0: no keyboard
[ 1.0000000] wskbd0 at lkkbd0 mux 1
[ 1.0000000] lkms0 at dz0
[ 1.0000000] wsmouse0 at lkms0 mux 0
[ 1.0000000] asc0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200c0080 vec 774 ipl 17 maskbit 0
[ 1.0000000] asc0: NCR53C94, 25MHz, SCSI ID 6
[ 1.0000000] scsibus0 at asc0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
[ 1.0000000] lcg0 at vsbus0 csr 0x21801000 vec 440 ipl 15 maskbit 2
[ 1.0000000] lcg0: framebuffer size 1280x1024, depth 4 (magic 0x80)
[ 1.0000000] lcg0: using font QVSS (8x15), console size: 160x68
[ 1.0000000] wsdisplay0 at lcg0 kbdmux 1
[ 1.0000000] vsaudio0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200d0000 vec 304 ipl 17 maskbit 6
[ 1.0000000] audio0 at vsaudio0: playback, capture, full duplex
[ 1.0000000] audio0: slinear_le:16 -> mulaw:8 1ch 8000Hz, blk 320 bytes (40ms) for playback
[ 1.0000000] audio0: slinear_le:16 <- mulaw:8 1ch 8000Hz, blk 320 bytes (40ms) for recording
[ 1.0000000] spkr0 at audio0: PC Speaker (synthesized)
[ 1.0000000] wsbell at spkr0 not configured
[ 1.0000000] WARNING: system needs entropy for security; see entropy(7)
[ 1.0180230] scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
[ 3.0380120] sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <ZULUSCSI, HARDDRIVE, 2.3B> disk fixed
[ 3.0679950] sd0: 4096 MB, 16384 cyl, 16 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8388608 sectors
[ 3.0980180] sd0: sync (160.00ns offset 15), 8-bit (6.250MB/s) transfers
[ 3.1183710] sd1 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <ZULUSCSI, HARDDRIVE, 2.3B> disk fixed
[ 3.1484430] sd1: 4095 MB, 8320 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8386560 sectors
[ 3.1783630] sd1: sync (160.00ns offset 15), 8-bit (6.250MB/s) transfers
[ 3.1986620] sd2 at scsibus0 target 2 lun 0: <ZULUSCSI, HARDDRIVE, 2.3B> disk fixed
[ 3.2286980] sd2: 4095 MB, 8320 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8386560 sectors
[ 3.2586260] sd2: sync (160.00ns offset 15), 8-bit (6.250MB/s) transfers
[ 3.2780500] cd0 at scsibus0 target 3 lun 0: <ZULUSCSI, CDROM, 2.3B> cdrom removable
[ 3.3080580] cd0: sync (160.00ns offset 15), 8-bit (6.250MB/s) transfers
[ 3.3283020] sd3 at scsibus0 target 4 lun 0: <ZULUSCSI, HARDDRIVE, 2.3B> disk fixed
[ 3.3582890] sd3: 4095 MB, 8320 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8386560 sectors
[ 3.3882420] sd3: sync (160.00ns offset 15), 8-bit (6.250MB/s) transfers
[ 3.4088020] sd4 at scsibus0 target 5 lun 0: <ZULUSCSI, HARDDRIVE, 2.3B> disk fixed
[ 3.4386040] sd4: 4095 MB, 8320 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8386560 sectors
[ 3.4685750] sd4: sync (160.00ns offset 15), 8-bit (6.250MB/s) transfers
[ 3.4879140] sd5 at scsibus0 target 7 lun 0: <ZULUSCSI, HARDDRIVE, 2.3B> disk fixed
[ 3.5179040] sd5: 4095 MB, 8320 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8386560 sectors
[ 3.5478610] sd5: sync (160.00ns offset 15), 8-bit (6.250MB/s) transfers
[ 3.5579190] swwdog0: software watchdog initialized
[ 3.5680700] boot device: sd0
[ 3.5882640] root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
[ 3.6383800] root file system type: ffs
[ 3.6579550] kern.module.path=/stand/vax/10.1/modules
[ 5.2082960] entropy: best effort
Tue Aug 18 09:21:17 UTC 2026
Starting root file system check:
/dev/rsd0a: file system is clean; not checking
Setting sysctl variables:
ddb.onpanic: 1 -> 0
swapctl: setting dump device to /dev/sd1b
swapctl: adding /dev/sd1b as swap device at priority 0
Starting file system checks:
/dev/rsd0d: file system is clean; not checking
/dev/rsd1g: file system is clean; not checking
[ 21.8884340] entropy: ready
Loaded entropy from /var/db/entropy-file.
Waiting for entropy...done
Setting tty flags.
Starting network.
Hostname: VAXStation.Atari8us
Configuring network interfaces: le0.
Adding interface aliases:.
Starting dhcpcd.
Building databases: dev, utmp, utmpx.
Starting syslogd.
Mounting all file systems...
Clearing temporary files.
Creating a.out runtime link editor directory cache.
Checking quotas: done.
Setting securelevel: kern.securelevel: 0 -> 1
swapctl: setting dump device to /dev/sd1b
Starting virecover.
Checking for core dump...
savecore: no core dump
Starting local daemons:.
Updating motd.
Starting sshd.
Starting inetd.
Starting cron.
Tue Aug 18 05:23:41 EDT 2026
NetBSD/vax (VAXStation.Atari8us) (constty)
login: technoid
Password:
Aug 18 05:28:06 VAXStation login: technoid on tty constty
Last login: Tue Aug 18 05:16:23 2026 from[_IP_XXXX] on pts/0
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013,
2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023,
2024
The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
NetBSD 10.1 (TechNoiDs_VAX_KA46) #0: Tue Aug 18 08:49:20 UTC 2026
Welcome to NetBSD!
VAXStation$ top
top: no termcap entry for a `unknown' terminal
load averages: 0.57, 0.75, 0.42; up 0+00:07:35 05:28:15
13 processes: 12 sleeping, 1 on CPU
CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 8.2% system, 0.0% interrupt, 91.8% idle
Memory: 15M Act, 7464K Inact, 5412K Exec, 14M File, 5068K Free
Swap: 256M Total, 1724K Used, 254M Free / Pools: 6820K Used / Network:
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
876 root 82 0 11M 3860K wait 0:07 18.07% 18.07% login
0 root 124 0 0K 7328K syncer 0:11 12.99% 12.99% [system]
1020 technoid 42 0 5052K 1204K CPU 0:00 0.00% 0.00% top
552 root 85 0 9204K 1196K kqueue 0:00 0.00% 0.00% syslogd
1056 technoid 85 0 4524K 1092K pause 0:00 0.00% 0.00% ksh
1043 root 85 0 4780K 612K nanoslp 0:00 0.00% 0.00% cron
293 _dhcpcd 85 0 4752K 508K poll 0:00 0.00% 0.00% dhcpcd
299 _dhcpcd 85 0 4744K 372K poll 0:00 0.00% 0.00% dhcpcd
297 _dhcpcd 83 0 4744K 360K poll 0:00 0.00% 0.00% dhcpcd
246 root 82 0 4816K 424K poll 0:00 0.00% 0.00% dhcpcd
728 root 81 0 4968K 620K kqueue 0:00 0.00% 0.00% inetd
946 root 80 0 12M 1552K poll 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sshd
1 root 80 0 4820K 696K wait 0:00 0.00% 0.00% init
Crude local scsi disk tests:
VAXStation$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/8meg_test.img bs=64k count=128 progress=1
........................................................................................................................
128+0 records in
128+0 records out
8388608 bytes transferred in 3.940 secs (2129088 bytes/sec)
VAXStation$ dd if=/tmp/8meg_test.img of=/dev/null bs=64k progress=1
........................................................................................................................
128+0 records in
128+0 records out
8388608 bytes transferred in 2.033 secs (4126221 bytes/sec)
VAXStation$ mkdir /mnt/qnap
Crude NFS mount test (target is a fast QNAP server):
VAXStation# cd /mnt/qnap
VAXStation# ls
9.2kernel SHA512 mkdri syssrc.tgz
@Recycle alpha_clean_src opentftpd.log testimg.img
ALPHA_NET_ROOT build_tree pkgsrc usr
Atari8USVol2 clean_config.txt sharesrc.tgz work
Downloads gnusrc.tgz src.tgz xsrc.tgz
MD5 index.html src_tree
VAXStation# pwd
/mnt/qnap
VAXStation# dd if=/dev/zero of=testimg.img bs=64k count=128 progress=1
........................................................................................................................
128+0 records in
128+0 records out
8388608 bytes transferred in 22.098 secs (379609 bytes/sec)
VAXStation# dd if=testimg.img of=/dev/null bs=64k progress=1
........................................................................................................................
128+0 records in
128+0 records out
8388608 bytes transferred in 16.100 secs (521031 bytes/sec)
VAXStation#
VAXStation# mount
/dev/sd0a on / type ffs (noatime, local)
/dev/sd0d on /usr type ffs (noatime, local)
/dev/sd1g on /storage1 type ffs (local)
kernfs on /kern type kernfs (local)
ptyfs on /dev/pts type ptyfs (local)
procfs on /proc type procfs (local)
tmpfs on /var/shm type tmpfs (local)
10.0.1.22:/Public on /mnt/qnap type nfs
VAXStation#