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From: mussar@bcars53.uucp (G. Mussar)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Adding Integrated SCSI to Sun
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Date: 30 Jul 90 18:39:09 GMT
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>More info on Adding Integrated SCSI to Sun

This is a Sun 3/60 running BSD 4.03 Unix. We were attempting to add various
Rodime and Quantum drives. And... we managed to get stuff working.

We were initially testing our integrated drive as SCSI address 2. Our kernel
mapped this to SD4. Unfortunately, the default /etc/format.dat file on our
system only contained SD0 - SD3 in its search path, so the format command
never found our drive. Our local Sun rep. kindly FAXed me some of the 4.03
System Admin manual so I could set up the format.dat in a reasonable fashion.

We still have problems trying to get the Sun to LLF the drive (but we can do
that other ways). The main trick is to get the label written out. 
a) Commit a null defect list (the integrated drive has already mapped out the
   defects found by the manufacturer).
b) Set up the disk partition.
c) Write the label.
d) Attempt to format (this always failed for us, but, everything seems to be
   OK).
 
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