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From: jeffs@soul.esd.sgi.com (Jeff Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX PS/2 patch 1009: Which Tape? Large SCSIs?
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.225248.5539@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 17 Jan 91 22:52:48 GMT
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In article <19820@hydra.gatech.EDU>, hh2@prism.gatech.EDU (HAAS) writes:
|> I second the "heaven help" them . . . .  If they can't support their
|> own hardware, who else in thier right mind would, and therefore, why
|> should we buy it ?!!

There really is no good explination, other than the people making the
cards in IBM probably outnumber the people doing work on AIX/PS2 (and
probably by an order of magnitude).  AIX on the PS/2 has never had 
much support from IBM.

|> I performed a "hack" myself, as instructed by a very kind and generous
|> AIX user. AIX installed (aparently) fine, but I now cannot use my Internal
|> Tape Backup, nor can I enable my serial port. Since the only change was the
|> hack, I must assume . . Either way, if IBM claims to provide SCSI
compatibility,
|> what's the *$^@^ problem ??? 

Well, this really isn't a SCSI compatability problem.  It's a brain
dead method of installation.  Why on earth do they have a config
for each size disk?  Maybe for small disks, where space is a problem,
but for big disks (200M or >) they should give standard partitions
for the next smallest drive, and leave the rest as free space....

I don't know about the 2 devices not working.  If the floppy works,
the ITBU should work.  I can't see how this would break the serial
port, but software is like witchcraft sometimes...

Good luck, I know this stuff is frustrating.

jeffs@sgi.com