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- From: laplante@unixg.ubc.ca (Denis Laplante)
- Subject: Re: hinv does not see Exabyte drives
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.222254.18841@unixg.ubc.ca>
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- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 22:22:54 GMT
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- Sorry for the vagueness.
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- We have 2 exabytes (bought 2 years apart from Digidyne) connected to
- Personal Iris 4D/25, and had problems at every power-up reboot. Some
- timeout message would be displayed.
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- Someone from SGI (I don't have the name) suggested changing the nvram
- variable bootmode from 'c' to 'C' . It works. I vaguely remember this
- changes the nature of SCSI device tests.
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- To change: 'nvram bootmode C', or in boot monitor 'setenv bootmode C'.
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- Denis Laplante <lapalnte@ocgy.ubc.ca>
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