At 23:55 28/06/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>WAHOO! I am in as Root! And I ain't gonna tell you what it was!
>
>Now, anyone know what the Streaming Tape Drive device is called?
>I can boot with this (an old Adaptec SCSI board) installed.
I have the TI 1300, and the device was called /dev/rct0
you should have the "help" command available, try also with ? and
the topic.
>I also have 2 CB811 cards but only one seems to come up with a light,
>the other one just flashes?
> *** CB811 -- (C) Copyright 1986 Computone Systems, Inc.
> (C) Copyright 1987, 1988 Texas Instruments Inc.
>
>I can not boot with either or both of these installed. I haven't tried
>real hard, maybe the console port changes with these in. But I also don't
>hear all the beeps if these are in.
I guess you are using built-in vga card and keyboard connected directly
in the machine, instead of using "tty0a" port of the CB811 with a vt 100 as
console. This, usually, make the difference.
>Here's my last bootup record
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Sat Jun 28 23:11:07
> *** CB811 -- (C) Copyright 1986 Computone Systems, Inc.
> (C) Copyright 1987, 1988 Texas Instruments Inc.
>
>Can't find any CB811 boards
>Texas Instruments print screen v1.01
>SPA initialization complete
>Streaming cartridge tape v2.00[A] (int=3,dma=3,base=00000220)
>Irootdev 1/40, pipedev 1/40, swapdev 1/41
>JKL0L1L2L3disk[W] drive 0: cyls = 918, heads = 15, secs = 17
>nswap = 5610, swplo = 0, Hz = 50
>L4maximum user process size = 8655k
>L5MNOPmem: total = 8064k, reserved = 4k, kernel = 1088k, user = 6
>Sat Jun 28 23:11:08
>972k
>kernel: drivers = 4k, 0 screens = 0k, 600 i/o bufs = 600k, msg bufs = 8k
>QRSTUVWXYZdisk[W] drive 1: cyls = 918, heads = 15, secs = 17
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>I have looked and can not find any docs on the CB811's or the Tape Drive
>8-( 8-( 8-(
>
>Anybody know anything about either of these?????
I will try to ask my old TEXAS suppliers and let you know
Riccardo
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