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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: Turning off SCSI devices and Rel 2.1
- Message-ID: <nmf212c@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Jul22.114709.9162@investor.pgh.pa.us> <1992Jul23.213549.10270@midway.uchicago.edu> <basiji.711941162@milton>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 07:32:18 GMT
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- In <basiji.711941162@milton> basiji@milton.u.washington.edu (David Basiji) writes:
- | I have a 90PRO transportable and I had to open the small vented front
- | panel and throw a two-position switch so the NeXT could see the Bernoulli
- | as a removable device. Seems the default position (which suits SGI and
- | others) of the switch is as non-removeable. This panel is about 3/4"
-
- Drives with removable media should be so marked in the inquiry command
- (presumably this is what the switch controls). Other than our older
- systems that had a bogus bias against removable media for the boot
- device (only), SGI's OS has no problem with devices that say that they
- have removable media.
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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