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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: SCSI as system disk on old 4D210GTX
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Jul28.093055.20427@crow.omni.co.jp>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 01:36:43 GMT
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- In <1992Jul28.093055.20427@crow.omni.co.jp> trich@crow.omni.co.jp (Timothy Richards) writes:
- | I have a very old 4D210GTX which currently uses an ESDI Disk drive
- | as the system disk. I want to use a SCSI disk as the system disk.
- | Specifically an IMPRIMIS94601-15 that I received from Nihon Silicon
- | Graphics. Anyway I can not get unix to boot successfully from the
- | SCSI disk - it allways crashes halfway through booting unix.
- | I have a newer 4D240GTX that uses the same type of drive as a system
- | disk without any problems.
- |
- | Is there special firmware in old 210GTX that means that the system disk
- | must be ESDI ???
-
- No. All the 4D series machines have SCSI support in the firmware.
- Perhaps the kernel you are trying to boot doesn't have a SCSI driver
- in it? What errors do you get, and have you tried booting up the
- miniroot from an inst tape?
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- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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