RFC; Request For Coaching. Was RE: RT 6150 Docs (and mouse??)

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Tue Jan 22 09:26:04 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doc [mailto:doc_at_mdrconsult.com]

> Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. I had to remove the SIIG 8-bit
> serial/parallel card before the poor guy could boot at all.

First thing to check is whether it will work in a different slot. Some busses are very picky,
 and I have no idea what is used in the RT. (So don't take my word for it.. ;)

> With just the good disk attached, the AOS miniroot gets adapter
> time-outs from the EESDI adapter, and reboots endlessly. The
> stand-alone
> utility won't accept any device name I can come up with - /dev/hdc0,
> /dev/hd0, hdc0, hd0, 0, slave 0 - to format the disk.

Probably more like rdT0 or rhdT0 (where T is a type of drive... or not there at all), or
rd0s0d0. The "r" is likely to be important because many unixes require a "character" type
device to actually make a filesytem on a disk, and in fact to do many disk-level operations.
  The "r" device prefix generally denotes this. For instance, on RISC/OS, SVR3.5, and I
believe SunOS 4, you'll see just that. I've always imagined the "r" to stand for "raw" or
something similar, but I'm not sure.

> > Also note that early version of AIX were much more like
> "something strange"
> than they were like normal Unix. From what I've heard they

> I dunno. Modern AIX is 'much more like "something strange"' than it
> is like modern Unix....

Well, ok, but my point was that they're supposed to be _more_ strange. :)

Regards,

Chris


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