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- From: deraadt@newt.cuc.ab.ca (Theo de Raadt)
- Subject: Re: Sun 3/60 / Archive QIC-150 boot problems
- In-Reply-To: lidl@pix.com's message of Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07: 23:29 GMT
- Message-ID: <DERAADT.92Dec17124543@newt.newt.cuc.ab.ca>
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- References: <eric.724211784@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu> <BzAHv7.CoB@pix.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:45:43 GMT
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- In article <BzAHv7.CoB@pix.com> lidl@pix.com (Kurt J. Lidl) writes:
- 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
- >prom monitor ("b st()") it fails with a complaint about "sense" or
- >something, or sometimes with "dma never completed".
-
- I was told once by a fairly reliable source that all the sun3
- series computers didn't have support for booting off 150meg drives.
-
- This will work with a new enough revision of the bootrom. Older versions
- of the bootrom would not handle this properly.
- <tdr.
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