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

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Tue Jan 22 14:46:59 2002

Update / Progress Report....
  Before I head down to the garage for the 3rd box of 1.2M floppies....

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Christopher Smith wrote:
> > 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,

  Nah, that SIIG card is c. 1988 or so, and I believe my early-RS6k
serial cables are the right pinout for the builtin S1 & S2.

> > 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.

Turned out to be "hd(0,0)" for the AOS utilities and "0" (D'OH!!) in
AIX...

> > > 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. :)

  Yes, I figured that, but I couldn't resist. And I settled on AIX,
mostly because my boss was doing R&D at TJ Watson when this puppy was
built. He doesn't collect, but I think he'll get a charge when he sees
it.

  And Dude, I'm sorry, but you really NEED to go find the IDG Outlook
Distress book or something. Line wraps, my man, line wraps.

        Doc
Received on Tue Jan 22 2002 - 14:46:59 GMT