Sun 3/100 - New toy.

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Mon Jul 26 14:21:16 1999

  Nope, not on a sun3...no Open Firmware, no "ok" prompt. There's no way to
probe devices from the ROM on a sun3. Aside from just trying to boot from them
one-by-one, that is.

      -Dave

On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, John Ott wrote:
>Hello -
>
>>From the "ok" prompt type: probe-scsi
>
>john
>
>>
>>
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>> | At 07:14 PM 7/25/99 +0100, you wrote:
>> | > how do I get it to tell me what devices I have available from
>> | > the ROM prompt?
>> |
>> | Look at them :-)
>>
>> Thanks, I should have known it was a stupid question ;-)
>>
>> I thought that I had one externl disk drive and two tape drives so I only hooked up the disk drive. The one box with a tape drive in it also has sd0 inside. Now I have got that plugged in as well it all works apart from the extra tape drive which I haven't connected yet.
>>
>> There is also no panic about the forgotten root password as whoever decomissioned the machine set it to null. It is a good job that I just tried logging in as root out of curiosity before going to the effort of bypassing the login and resetting the password :)
>>
>> It looks as if sd0 is 100Mb and sd4 appears to be 270Mb with penty of free space on both.
>>
>> According to uname -a it is running SunOS 4.1.1
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>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Pete
>>
>>
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