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From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  Problem booting dn3500 stand-alone with sr10.3
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Date: 1 Feb 91 14:30:36 GMT
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We ran our DN3500 with the 697 MB Maxtor 8760E (ESDI interface) disk, the
WD7000 controller, 8 MB RAM, 19" color 1024x800 (E series) monitor, and
cartridge tape under SR10.3 during the beta test period with no errors
related to booting the machine (only with the DM graphics :-{ ). You
mention that you have a 660 MB disk. What model is it? Is it connected
to the SCSI port of the WD7000 or the ESDI port? (the SCSI port is the
one near the back panel of the board; the ESDI port(s) are near to the
middle of the top of the board).

Try booting the machine diskless from the SR10.3 boot tape. Shut
the machine down, type DI C to set it to boot from the cartridge tape
drive, and then type EX DOMAIN_OS to load up SR10.3 (this may wind up
asking you if you want to replace the current S/W on the hard disk).
If your disk is really a 660MB SCSI disk, there could conceivably be
a bug in the disk driver code. I think most of the beta-test sites
were running 155/348/697 MB ESDI disks at the time the beta-test of
SR10.3 was conducted.


 -- David Krowitz

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