Subject: Re: IPC problems.
To: None <neil@domino.org>
From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/26/1996 19:57:52
As Neil J. McRae wrote...
> 
> On Tue, 25 Jun 1996 16:09:25 +0100 (BST) 
>  Peter Galbavy <peter@wonderland.org> wrote:
> 
> > > I've upgraded my sparc IPC from SunOS to NetBSD.
> > > 
> > > Unless I type probe-scsi at the ok prompt the machine will not boot.
> > 
> > You may find that that drive does not auto-start at power on, and
> > that the probe-scsi does a UNIT START command. I am not sure if
> > the mi SCSI / esp drivers do this. Maybe time for another flag byte in
> > the drivers ?
> 
> The boot block would have to take care of this? I'll check this out 

How do you get the bootblock from a non-spinning disk? 

:-)

Wilko
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