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- From: bill@mwca.microware.com (Bill Sheppard)
- Subject: Re: OS9 Hard Drives on an SGI or SUN
- Message-ID: <DnEDIG.Lw@mwca.microware.com>
- Organization: Microware Systems Corp, Western Regional Office
- References: <3123B71D.167E@ball.com> <4g39at$643@kernighan.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 19:15:51 GMT
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- In <4g39at$643@kernighan.cs.umass.edu> heller@cs.umass.edu (Robert Heller) writes:
-
- >VP> I have an Agema computer with a Motorolla 68000 running OS9 as its
- >VP> opsys. It came with 4GB removable Seagate hard drives. I need to
- >VP> analyse the images that have been collected real time with my SGI
- >VP> in an enviroment that the Agema is not permited in...
-
- >Another possibility: get a cheap 386 box and install Linux and write a OS-9
- >handler with the UFS hack (user-mode file system). Then nfs export the drive
- >from the Linux box to the SGI. This will be much faster than the exabyte.
-
- More straightforward than this would be to get a cheap OS-9 system and
- NFS export the drive. A number of low-cost systems w/SCSI exist, for a
- Microware-supported system you might consider a non-VME 162 from
- Motorola with a BSP from Microware.
-
- Bill Sheppard
- Microware Systems
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