Thomas Graichen spake
> 
> just for your information - someone in port-pmax or comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc

It was me, on this list. thanks!

> asked if a zip drive will work on a pmax - i tried it yesterday - the drive
> itself is accessable from BSD (i tried it with OpenBSD/pmax - but this
> should'nt make any difference) if you change conf-glue.c to use the rzdriver
> for the scsi-id 5 device - and use an kernel config file reflecting this (the
> zip drive can only be set to scsi id 5 or 6) - this way i could read and write
> the zip disk just fine - but i was'nt able to boot off it - i always got
> something like bad bootblk on the console - can it be that the pmax console
> has scsi id 5 also hardwired for (bootable) tapes ? - btw. i tried it on a ds
> 2100 - is it possible to boot a pmax from a disk on scsi id 5 ?

Isn't there a console command for this?

Now my question for the experinced is this: I now have a Solaris boot server
and a Zip drive, what is easisest: a full network install or to mount / off
a Zip drive? 

>
> hope the info helps someone - and if someone has a suggestion to my question -
> thanks in advance
> 
> t
> 
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>   thomas graichen    graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de    graichen@FreeBSD.org
> 
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> 

Thank you.

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