Subject: Re: writing bootable drive for a DECstation 2100 or 3100 box
To: None <rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.Stanford.EDU>
List: port-pmax
Date: 03/02/1999 11:42:53
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 rdkeys@unity.ncsu.edu wrote:

> Yes, the sun does not like two drives at id0.....(:+{{....., but the
> old sun3 has the correct mappings.  The next generation sparc hardware
> played games with id numbers, as I understand it, and my sparcstation
> seems to bear out, as opposed to my sun3 and sun4 boxes.
> 
> It was set up as id3 on the sun and rejumpered to id0 on the DEC.  It should
> have booted as rz(0,0,0), if the drive actual id is 0, correct, or is the
> DEC expecting a different id number to boot as rz(0,0,0)?

That should be fine.

I'm now out of ideas.

Sorry.

Take care,

Bill