[OT] SCSI termination trouble? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 Feb 2001

From: Richard Erlacher &lt;edick(a)idcomm.com&gt;

...
 The boot drive normally IS at ID=0, however. 
That's a real convention
throughout the SCSI usage.  I don't recall ever seeing a system that would
...
 boot, say, from ID=4.  Most PC's will promote the
ID=1 device to the boot
...
 rank, but not if ID=0 is present but manlfunctioning. 
YMMV, of course.
Dick 

On a vax it can be any device and does not have to be the first.
Typically device
6 or 7 is reserved to the host other than that anything goes.

Mine boots DUA3 {3} on the MVII and DKA500 {5} on the 3100m76 and the
3100M10e
it can be DKBnnn {100,200,300 or 400} as that one has different bootable
version on each disk.

Allison