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- From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Sun 3/60 / Archive QIC-150 boot problems
- Message-ID: <71596@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 22:50:50 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <eric.724211784@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu>
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- In article<eric.724211784@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu>
- eric@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu (Eric Volpe) writes:
-
- | Hi... I'm having a problem using a Sun 3/60 (prom rev lvl. 1.6) with
- | an Archive QIC-150 SCSI tape.
- |
- | When I try to boot a SunOS 4.1.1 boot tape (60 Mb format) from the
-
- Wellll, you didn't say what the PROM revision level was on the other
- Sun-3/60 upon which that tape WILL boot.
-
- As a matter of reference, one NEEDS prom level 1.8 or greater for SunOS 4.*
- (per the info in the PROM Manual and the info in the SunOS 4.* manuals).
-
- To date, I've seen only 1.6, 1.9 and 3.0.1 on Sun-3/60 systems (and 1.8 on
- a Sun-3/160).
-
- Given that the boot PROM is only a 27C512 (64Kx8), one could easily dupe the
- prom from a more-recent Sun-3/60 and see if that solves the problem.
-
- Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com, thad@cup.portal.com ]
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