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From: dcon@cbnewsc.att.com (david.r.connet)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: AT&T SysV Rel 4.0 - SCSI Complaints
Message-ID: <1991May13.203539.2917@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 13 May 91 20:35:39 GMT
References: <1991May11.180401.28483@virtech.uucp> <767u21w164w@gantz.bowlgreen.oh.us> <1991May13.173321.26626@cbnewsc.att.com>
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In article <1991May13.173321.26626@cbnewsc.att.com> dcon@cbnewsc.att.com (david.r.connet) writes:
>In article <767u21w164w@gantz.bowlgreen.oh.us> gantzm@gantz.bowlgreen.oh.us (gantzm) writes:
#>cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
#>> brando@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Brandon Brown) writes:
#>> You can fix this several ways.  
#>> 
#>> 	1. use a binary editor to replace the AT&T strings on the boot
#>> 	   disketttes so that it recognizes your devices.
#>> 
#>> 	2. Get the system loaded on a supported device and then change the
#>> 	   SCSI id tables in /etc/conf/pack.d/{scsi driver directories}.  There
#>> 	   are two directories (one for tapes and one for disks).
#>> 
#>        As the original poster of this wonderful mess, is this modification
#>easy?<Don't laugh too hard>  I'm a new system administrator, and sort
#>of know what I'm doing, enough to be dangerous I guess.  
#
#Quite easy.  For #2, edit /etc/conf/pack.d/scsi/space.c and then idbuild
                                            ^^^^
#and reboot.  Also edit /etc/scsi/tc.index (used for mkfs, and other commands).
#What I do is to copy an entry for a similar device (someone tells me what
#is similar).  Beware, in the tc.index file, there are trailing blanks.
#These are critical.

Oops, I meant sd01.

Dave Connet
dcon@iwtng.att.com