Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!beartrk!ceilidh!dnichols From: dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (DoN Nichols) Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1 Subject: Re: Different boot problem... Keywords: 3b1 boot Message-ID: <1991Mar2.011234.17318@ceilidh.beartrack.com> Date: 2 Mar 91 01:12:34 GMT References: <12744@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Mar1.045750.19952@i88.isc.com> Distribution: comp Organization: D and D Data, Vienna, VA. Lines: 36 In article <1991Mar1.045750.19952@i88.isc.com> botton@i88.isc.com (Brian D. Botton) writes: [ ... ] > BTW, if you look in /usr/include/sys/machine.m you will see that there are >3 disk types, winchester (HD), floppy (FD) and syquest (SY). It is fairly >obvious from the boot ROM and loader code that support for more than the >HD and FD was intended and easy to add. Does anyone know what a "syquest" is? Yep! It is/was a removable-media 5.25" hard disk. I think that it was ST-506 interface, but the stuff in /usr/include/sys/machine.m ? (I don't find 'machine.[mh]' in my /usr/include/sys, but it may have been blown away in some backup/restore operation. I'll have to check the machine with the STOCK 3.51 on it.) I've seen them at hamfests, but avoided purchasing one since I understand that the media are made of hens' teeth. :-) (I once bought some 3.25" NOT 3.5" floppy drives, and found ONE(1) floppy for them in the next two years. :-) If media were available, these would make nice backup/transfer media, since I think that they were 20MB or so. (I think that the media were outrageously expensive, which may have been a factor leading to their decline. Another was a reputation for poor interchangability of media between drives.) If I'm wrong about this, let me know, and I'll pick up one at the next hamfest, and install it as a second drive in place of the floppy (with ICUS mod in place). Good Luck DoN. -- Donald Nichols (DoN.) | Voice (Days): (703) 664-1585 D&D Data | Voice (Eves): (703) 938-4564 Disclaimer: from here - None | Email: --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero ---