Subject: Re: Bootstrapping on a Sparc...
To: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/24/1996 09:42:49
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996 11:19:44 -0400 (EDT) 
 Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com> wrote:

 > Depending on the video in the 4/110, it should work fine.  I have one with
 > a CG6 on the P4 bus, which works.  The 'sw' SCSI controller works, 
 > though I have never tried a tape drive.  The boot code for the 4/110
 > needs to have the a.out header stripped off, when you're making a
 > tape.

Since the `sw' driver doesn't do disconnect/reselect (I could never figure
out how the sw interrupts work), you may want to exercise caution with
a tape drive (i.e. it will keep hold of the SCSI bus during, say, `rewind').

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