> Apologies for not thinking of this sooner, but it just occured to me that the 
> problems booting with SYS_INST may have been the same as I was experiencing 
> in July of last year (1995).
> 
> Try compiling SYS_INST with "-DSLOWSCSI" (yes, I'm aware that some of you 
> don't have your HP boxes booting yet, much less compiling.  See below.).  
> That's what let me get some of our 340's running from SCSI disks...  That 
> option apparently lets "slow drives" work with "fast machines" (for some 
> defn's of "slow" and "fast").  
> 
> I've just whipped up a fresh copy of SYS_INST (from the 1.2 distribution) with 
> "-DSLOWSCSI", and will happily mail it to anyone who would like to try it... 
> (It's about 36K, gzipped and uuencoded)  (I don't guarantee nuthin' with it 
> though -- I havn't even tested it myself... It compiled, and that's it :-> )

Well, I'm using an 8.5ms 2G Quantum SCSI II drive on a 68040 HP box...
it's not slow, but I'll bite... send me the file (don't send it to the
list accidently!  8-)), and I'll give it a try...

Thanks in advance...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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