Ok - So I have this completely idle DECstation...(No OS at all)...

Herb was kind enough to give me a rootimage and bootblock, but I can't 
seem to get them onto a disk...

The disks are rz23's...Connor manufacture...They don't spin up on power, 
but rather, on command.  I've tried plugging them into several kinds of 
machines...hp433/HP-UX, hp433/NetBSD, Sparc/NetBSD, hp712/HP-UX, etc.  
None of them seem to be able to eat this drive.  I/O errors, for lack of 
spinning up, I assume.

As you can imagine, this is getting a weensy bit frustrating...So, does 
anybody know which jumper to frob to get that bloody disk to spin up on 
power?  This is approaching week 2 of ``Yeah - I'm gonna try and 
bootstrap that pmax tonight...''

Thanx...

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Jason R. Thorpe               thorpej@cs.orst.edu                 758-2003
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