New subject: Anybody seen Jeff Worley (UberTechnoid@Home.com)????

22 Jan 2002

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  -----Original Message-----
 From: Doc [mailto:doc@mdrconsult.com] 
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    Oh, yeah, I almost forgot.  I had to remove the SIIG
8-bit
 serial/parallel card before the poor guy could boot at all. 
First thing to check is whether it will work in a different slot.  Some busses are very
picky,
 and I have no idea what is used in the RT.  (So don't take my word for it.. ;)

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    With just the good disk attached, the AOS miniroot
gets adapter
 time-outs from the EESDI adapter, and reboots endlessly. The 
 stand-alone
 utility won't accept any device name I can come up with - /dev/hdc0,
 /dev/hd0, hdc0, hd0, 0, slave 0 - to format the disk. 
Probably more like rdT0 or rhdT0 (where T is a type of drive... or not there at all), or 
rd0s0d0.  The "r" is likely to be important because many unixes require a
"character" type 
device to actually make a filesytem on a disk, and in fact to do many disk-level
operations.
  The "r" device prefix generally denotes this.  For instance, on RISC/OS,
SVR3.5, and I 
believe SunOS 4, you'll see just that.  I've always imagined the "r" to
stand for "raw" or 
something similar, but I'm not sure.

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   Also note that
early version of AIX were much more like   "something strange"
  than they were like normal Unix.  From what I've heard they  
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    I dunno.  Modern AIX is 'much more like
"something strange"' than it
 is like modern Unix.... 
Well, ok, but my point was that they're supposed to be _more_ strange. :)

Regards,

Chris


Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL

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