25 Jan
2002
25 Jan
'02
9:22 a.m.
On January 25, Doc Shipley wrote:
There are numerous refernces to the use of IDE
drives in the RT
newsgroup. Although AIX actually will install in 70MB, it leaves little
room to play in. Plus, that one E70 alone was warming my house and
whining loudly enough to make my cats cry.
Oh wow...I didn't know you could do that. I have a 6150 here (from
BSD Bob) that I'd love to stick some more disk in. I will have to
investigate this further. :)
I've been offered a copy of 4.4BSD/Romp for it,
which I may try out.
I'd like to try AOS, but I can't find the full distribution, just the
tools, updates, and diagnostic utilities.
I'm running 4.4BSD on mine. It's a really neat machine. I just got
a megapel board for it (thanks Gordon!) and now I need to find a tube
and a mouse.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
25 Jan
25 Jan
2:10 p.m.
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:
Oh wow...I didn't know you could do that. I
have a 6150 here (from
BSD Bob) that I'd love to stick some more disk in. I will have to
investigate this further. :)
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=37mcehINN7o1%40CS.UTK.EDU
The most concise description of the process I've found. Although if
you use the dboot disk below, I don't think you'll need to do the SAU
format. IFAICT, there's no way around the Seagate-to-boot limitation,
but my Conner, at least, will work as a secondary, and some posts
mention Quantum & WD.
AIX will bitch & moan till you do a dboot AND let Diags format it, to
build a bad-blocks table the VRM understands.
I'm running 4.4BSD on mine. It's a really
neat machine. I just got
a megapel board for it (thanks Gordon!) and now I need to find a tube
and a mouse.
Dog! I was a day late & a dollar short asking. Concerning the tube,
the specs on the megapel's output strongly suggest that a 6091 in Mode 1
will do, an HP 9875[1-4]A or most any sync-on-green multi-sync.
Concerning the cable, is the Megapel output the same 3W3 as the older
RS/6000 adapters have? If so, I've never found an IBM cable for my
RS6ks, but a DEC 3W3 works great if you swap Blue & Red. They're common
as dirt, too.
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