Subject: Re: Success story + problems
To: Allison J Parent <allisonp@world.std.com>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/22/1997 18:17:30
On May 22, you wrote:
> > ...uhh, so if there is a SCSI driver, how can you say that only MFM disks
> > are supported?!
> > 
> > Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.go
> 
> Simple, while the SCSI device is there and operable the rom driver only 
> supports boots from the then (1985) SCSI device being a TK50 tape. 
> 
> All the other boots in rom are for net(mop) and MFM disks via the onboard 
> controller for that.  Now if you load via mop or floppy a small chunk of 
> code to boot via SCSI disk it will!

  I think what we have here is a terminology problem surrounding the
word "supported".

  I think we can say that the '2000 boot ROM "supports" SCSI TK50
only, not SCSI disks.

  I think we can also say that NetBSD "supports" SCSI disks, or so
I've been told.


                           -Dave McGuire