26 Jun
2006
26 Jun
'06
12:01 p.m.
But why anyone would want to set up something with an
ST-412 interface on
the far end at this late date is beyond me.
If you didn't have to reformat the drive (not sure how the bridgeboards worked in this
respect), it would allow you to pull data off
of a ST412-interface drive onto a modern one for backup. I have an IRIS here that the PM2
is nonfunctional, yet I would still like to
see if I can salvage the O/S off the drive.
The other thing I could think of is perhaps SunOS would have a Data Systems Design driver
and I could drop the IRIS controller
in a VTM (VME to Multibus) adaptor and archive it that way . . . but a bridgeboard would
be nice if it worked.
2) How to set up the board in software; I expect the
kernel will get upset
if it can't query drive geometry at boot time - but it's going to do that as
part of driver set up, before any vendor-specific commands can be sent to the
board in order to set *it* up.
try scsiadd - Debian supports it, anyway. I use it to find drives that weren't
recognized at bootup (powered down) when I didn't want to restart the machine.
It also works for hot-swaps.
Scott Quinn