NeXTstep 3.3 minimal developer setup

From: James Rice <jrice_at_texoma.net>
Date: Tue Apr 9 08:27:58 2002

I just bit the bullet and bought a 2.1gb connor drive to replace the 406
seagate on my slab. I got tired of trying to strip everything down to
fit and 2-4gb SCSI drives are so cheap on ebay or in surplus shops right
now. You just have to be careful. There are a lot of 50pin Seagate and
IBM drives out there that have been flashed by Compaq with custom
firmware. Compaq must have dumped a ton of them into the surplus
market. I've been buying 2.1gb drives for $6-7. They work fine on a pc
but the NeXT cubes and slabs choke on them. you get a ton of SCSI
errors if they are used as a boot drive. They work ok as a second
drive. I'm been experimenting with flashing the rom with ScsiTool from
www.nu2.nu, but haven't had much luck yet.

James

Alan Pearson wrote:

>I'm looking into ways of setting up a "poor mans 3.3 developer toolkit" up
>on a NeXT slab which currently has 3.3 user installed on a 100Mb hard disk.
>Before I get too into the idea I thought I'd better ask if anyone on the
>list has already tried and failed :-) I'm guessing that all I *really* need
>are the includes - the libraries are already installed, and IIRC I can
>cross-compile GNU tools on a Linux box (any idea what versions of compiler
>etc were supplied with 3.3 Developer?). I'm happy to archive apps to floppy
>to free up a bit more space if required. Any thoughts, NeXT fans on the
>list?
>
>I know it's probably easier to trawl for a copy of 3.3 Developer and just
>install a bigger hard disk, but this way seems a bit more fun :-)
>
>TIA
>Al.
>
>.
>
Received on Tue Apr 09 2002 - 08:27:58 BST