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From: rjn@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: 20GBYTE Optical on Diskless 340 ?
Message-ID: <7370103@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 90 04:09:23 GMT
References: <1990Mar13.234341.5720@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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re: > We want to have a discless 340 booting off of a 835 (because it is a
    > cheap way to get a SCSI port).  And we want to use a
    >      * 20 Gbyte r/w Optical JukeBox *

Can't be done, yet.  Diskless clients can't have locally mounted file
systems.  They can have swap disk, raw device access, but no block-I/O.  For
the moment, the 340 will have to be self-hosted.  The most economical way to
do that is to get the 200 Mbyte internal disk (available as an upgrade if
you already own the 340).  Then you can NFS mount the JukeBox.

At HP-UX 8.0, there is a good chance that we will support local mounts, but
then the Series 800 will have native SCSI support at 8.0, eliminating the
need for the 340-size "lump" in the cable between the 800 and Jukebox.

> Suffering the pains of watching the world migrate from HP-IB to SCSI...

So are we.

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Bob Niland                                            3404 East Harmony Road
rjn%hpfcrjn@hplabs.HP.COM                             Fort Collins
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