From: David Woyciesjes
<DAW(a)yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
To: "'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org'" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Subject: RE: Sun help needed... [was: RE: open "dumpster" event in New Hav
en, CT]
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:11:26 -0400
Sender: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Reply-To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
> From: Bill Pechter
>
> > Anyway, to my point... This is off-topic, so taking it off-list is
> > appropriate I believe... I have a Sun Ultra1 Creator. (170E, Open Boot
> 3.1,
> > 128 MB RAM, 4 GB Quantum, 1 GB Conner, floppy disk... old 19" Sun color
> > monitor, type 5c keyb, optical mouse w/proper silver pad!) Well, now
> that I
> > finally got the Creator framebuffer replaced, it's time to load Solaris.
> > Except that all the CD-ROMS I have aren't even seen by the console...
> And I
> > tried the sector size jumper both ways.
> >
> > --
>
> try to describe the scsi bus and termination.
> do a probe-scsi and a probe-scsi-all...
>
> let me know what that does.
I'm pretty sure that there is a Sun screwup in the Ultra1 boot ROM such
that "probe-scsi" doesn't work right when "auto-boot" is enabled.
auto-boot?=false
carl
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carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
clowenstein(a)ucsd.edu