ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) wrote: Indeed, this is a very good site, highly recommended for HP computer-related manuals. I did consult the CE guide you mention, but it is totally confusing and this is the one that got me in trouble in the first place. This guide gives an example of the boot screen with all the on-board peripherals. This could not be further from the truth: (a) the high speed HP-IB controller is mutually exclusive with the SCSI controller, and (b) the ordering of the items in this menu (and hence which keys to press to select various options) is wrong. Great! The former misunderstanding caused me to expect to see the SCSI controller even when the fast HP-IB controller was connected to the motherboard. In fact, all I had to do to get the SCSI controller to come to life was to unplug the fast HP-IB daugherboard from the motherboard. The second misunderstanding caused me to waste my time trying to get the machine to switch to the serial port. I did not have a VDU for this machine, and I did not want to spend time trying to find one just to switch to the the console to the serial port), so I was typing the sequence blind. Since the ordering was wrong I was not actually configuring the serial port. I was rescued by the NetBSD HP300 FAQ which gives the correct order for the probe. Anyway, back to the SCSI problem. I tried an ancient Quantum 100Mb drive (yes Mb, not Gb), and the machine passed its SCSI diagnostics but failed to detect the drive. This may well be because the drive does not contain an HPUX boot code although I am sure I did not see the drive access light come on during the search for boot devices. **vp