On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Ken Seefried wrote: ...well, I can tell you where one of them is: here. :-) Alas, it's boot drive failed, and I've got to find time to replace it; I think I've got a 330MB ESDI Micropolis drive that will with it; it's really picky about which drives ones will, and won't, work, IIRC. It's AIX appears to be a rather strange animal as well, but I didn't get a chance to play with it enough to find out just how strange. :-( If course, while it may be strange in comparison to other UNICEs, I doubt that it's as annoying as anything from SCO (is the rumor true that SCO actually stands for "Screwey Clunker of an OS" and that it began as part of a Microsoft plot to make people dislike UNIX?). Those original IBM drives made fascinating sounds when the locking mechanisms unlocked, one at a time, prior to spin-up... plink, plink, plink... sort of musical. I've got to get a 5-1/4" hard drive re-attached to one of my working UNIX boxes so that I can dump the AIX boot floppy, etc. images to floppies. Do I recall correctly that the PC-RT's tape drive is a "floppy tape" sort of critter? It so, I'm wondering if I can just attach that tape drive to a UNIX box that supports it (if that's possible) and create some sort of bootable tape from the image files. Has anyone here done this? If not, has anyone here created a bootable tape from a working RT running AIX? -- Copyright (C) 2001 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)perqlogic.com 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.