Sun help needed... [was: RE: open "dumpster" event in New Hav en, CT]

From: Carl Lowenstein <cdl_at_proxima.ucsd.edu>
Date: Fri Apr 26 16:15:49 2002

> From: David Woyciesjes <DAW_at_yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
> To: "'classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org'" <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Subject: RE: Sun help needed... [was: RE: open "dumpster" event in New Hav
> en, CT]
> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:11:26 -0400
> Sender: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Reply-To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
>
> > From: Bill Pechter
> >
> > > Anyway, to my point... This is off-topic, so taking it off-list is
> > > appropriate I believe... I have a Sun Ultra1 Creator. (170E, Open Boot
> > 3.1,
> > > 128 MB RAM, 4 GB Quantum, 1 GB Conner, floppy disk... old 19" Sun color
> > > monitor, type 5c keyb, optical mouse w/proper silver pad!) Well, now
> > that I
> > > finally got the Creator framebuffer replaced, it's time to load Solaris.
> > > Except that all the CD-ROMS I have aren't even seen by the console...
> > And I
> > > tried the sector size jumper both ways.
> > >
> > > --
> >
> > try to describe the scsi bus and termination.
> > do a probe-scsi and a probe-scsi-all...
> >
> > let me know what that does.

I'm pretty sure that there is a Sun screwup in the Ultra1 boot ROM such
that "probe-scsi" doesn't work right when "auto-boot" is enabled.

        auto-boot?=false

    carl
-- 
        carl lowenstein   marine physical lab   u.c. san diego
                                          clowenstein_at_ucsd.edu
Received on Fri Apr 26 2002 - 16:15:49 BST

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