Subject: Re: Sun 3/80 questions
To: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
From: Bob Beck <beck@obtuse.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 09/12/1997 12:14:34
> > SCSI ID boot
> > 0 sd(0,0,0)
> > 1 sd(0,8,0)
> > 2 sd(0,10,0)
> > 3 sd(0,18,0)
> >
> > (intuituve doncha think? One of those things that endears a
> > company to you, kinda like New Coke and NIS+ does for me.)
> >
> I actually kinda like this - IIRC its in hex and its just
> LUN+(8*ID). Was kinda interesting to see a sun4/330 booting
> from 'sd:' though :)
>
> David/abs
>
It's fine once you know. and I suppose it still beats the hell
out of out of:
boot /sbus/dma@0,8000000,sd@0,blah,blah,woof,woof..
Which also makes sense once you know what's going on, but
I suppose could be somewhat intimidating to the novice ;-)
-Bob