26 Jul
1999
26 Jul
'99
7:21 a.m.
Nope, not on a sun3...no Open Firmware, no "ok" prompt. There's no way
to
probe devices from the ROM on a sun3. Aside from just trying to boot from them
one-by-one, that is.
-Dave
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, John Ott wrote:
Hello -
From the "ok" prompt type: probe-scsi
john
| At 07:14 PM 7/25/99 +0100, you wrote:
| > how do I get it to tell me what devices I have available from
| > the ROM prompt?
|
| Look at them :-)
Thanks, I should have known it was a stupid question ;-)
I thought that I had one externl disk drive and two tape drives so I only hooked up the
disk drive. The one box with a tape drive in it also has sd0 inside. Now I have got that
plugged in as well it all works apart from the extra tape drive which I haven't
connected yet.
There is also no panic about the forgotten root password as whoever decomissioned the
machine set it to null. It is a good job that I just tried logging in as root out of
curiosity before going to the effort of bypassing the login and resetting the password :)
It looks as if sd0 is 100Mb and sd4 appears to be 270Mb with penty of free space on
both.
According to uname -a it is running SunOS 4.1.1
Regards
Pete
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