According to Greg Oster:
> thorpej@nas.nasa.gov writes:
> > On Mon, 9 Dec 1996 10:47:11 -0700 (MST) 
> >  Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote:
> > 
> >  > Is there any status on the SCSI SYS_INST?
> > 
> > First, lets clarify...
> > 
> > There is no such thing as the "SCSI SYS_INST".  SYS_INST is a single
> > program with both SCSI and HP-IB disk drivers.  It uses the same
> > SCSI disk driver as the boot program, SYS_UBOOT.
> [snippage]
> 
> 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'm not sure about the rest of the guys here, but _my_ problem is not
that SYS_INST won't boot, but that disklabel that comes in SYS_INST
can't find any of my scsi disks.

BTW ... BSD4.4 from berkeley shipped with an hp300 dd that included the
disklabel, etc. I got one of those to boot, but it fails in another wierd
way. I'll be spending more time with that, though before I give a final
determination.



> 
> 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 :-> )
> 
> Later...
> 
> Greg Oster
> 
> oster@cs.usask.ca
> Department of Computer Science
> University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA
> 
> 


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