Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!netcom!amdcad!sun!newstop!jethro!Asia.Sun.Com From: bhepple@Asia.Sun.Com (Bob Hepple - Sun Asia Mktg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.misc Subject: Re: vpix and the a: drive... Keywords: vpix xenix drive Message-ID: <3920@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> Date: 23 Apr 91 03:31:42 GMT References: <1208@bcs800.UUCP> Sender: news@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM Reply-To: bhepple@Asia.Sun.Com (Bob Hepple - Sun Asia Mktg) Distribution: usa Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. Lines: 39 In-reply-to: jeffs@bcs800.UUCP (Jeff Smith) In article <1208@bcs800.UUCP>, jeffs@bcs800 (Jeff Smith) writes: >has anyone out there successfully installed vpix on a xenix (or unix) >machine? I have installed sco vpix 1.2 on xenix 2.3.3 386 and >cannot seem to get it to access either the first floppy drive (so I >can't install any software) or the first (primary) dos partition on >the second physical harddisk. under xenix, the floppy works as >/dev/rfd096ds15; a standard 1.2 M 5 1/4. the second hard drive >is /dev/rdsk/1s0. I've tried everything but the correct answer in >vpix.cnf, but even when a: is set to rfd096ds15, which works in >xenix, vpix doesn't even TRY to access the drive before a drive >not ready error. > >Has anyone got this to work? Yes - but I used an earlier version of vpix. To get the floppies to work, I recall that I had to chmod +w them. And I used /dev/hd00 as my DOS partition. I had to chmod that too. I had problems with floppy B: (a 3 1/2" drive) but they went away when I upgraded the 2.3.0 system to 2.3.3 with SLS xnx155. Now, if I could only get the mouse to work ... Hope this helps, Bob Hepple Business Development Manager-Solutions Sun Microsystems Inc Asia Headquarters 29/F Shui On Centre 8 Harbour Rd Hong Kong ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Bob Hepple | _____ _ _ _ _ |voice: (852) 865-1688 | | Sun Microsystems, Inc.| /____ / / /\ / | fax: (852) 865-2667 | | Hong Kong | _____/ /___/ _/ \/ | inet: bhepple@Asia.Sun.Com| | GMT + 8 hours | | uucp: ..!sun!sunhk!bhepple| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------