[Maybe OT] A/UX installation

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Tue Feb 12 00:55:55 2002

At 08:16 PM 11/02/2002 -0600, Doc wrote:
>On 11 Feb 2002, Brian Wheeler wrote:
>
> > When I try to boot up on a IIci, the floppy works ok, and it starts to
> > search for the CD in the CD drive. The cd drive is a toshiba 5401B, I
> > pulled from an alpha. It never finds a valid disk. So, to try to
> > figure out what was wrong, I used BasiliskII (a mac-on-unix emulation)
> > and tried to mount the CD image as a disk under system 7.6...and it
> > wanted to format it. Should the CD be mountable?
>
> Not necessarily. I made my CD in Linux too, and it works. But the
>list of supported drives is about 5. I've had luck with the Apple 300i,
>but none at all with the 600, and luck with an RRD42. Period. My
>Toshiba-which-will-even-boot-VMS won't find the CD in A/UX.

Isn't there an issue with sector size. VMS systems want 512 byte sectors
and most PCs (and I'm guessing Macs too) want 2048 byte sectors. Certainly
the RRD42 I tried to get to work in my mother's Mac didn't....

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