Subject: Re: Sparc Classic Install
To: None <kyrrin@bluefeathertech.com>
From: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/19/2001 21:14:17
At 20:50 -0700 7/19/01, Bruce Lane wrote:

>	'probe-scsi' will only work with hard drives that have Sun-specific
>firmware. When I've tried it with other drives, the result is usually a
>bizarre error message of some sort. However, the disk itself is actually
>perfectly usable.

That is NOT true! It will work with ANY standard SCSI drive that 
obeys the IDENT command, per specification. If "probe-scsi" isn't 
seeing a drive, it's disconnected or dead.

	Erik <fair@clock.org>