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From: trumpour@uvicctr.UUCP (trumpour)
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Subject: booting 4.3bsd off System Industries 9751/9761 eagle disks
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Date: Tue, 21-Apr-87 14:58:12 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 21 14:58:12 1987
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Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. Canada
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	My attempts to boot 4.3bsd off a "direct" (ie NOT mapped as
an RM05) Fujuitsu 2351A or 2361 Eagle (SI 9751 or 9761) attached to
a VAX 11/780 via a Systems Industries 9900 controller fails with the
message:  "unknown drive type".  I assume that this is because the
programs in /sys/stand, as provided by Berkeley do not know about
the SI drives.  SI did provide an updated vaxmba/hp.c with appropriate
header files and several useful utilities for formatting and repairing
their disks--all running under UNIX.  Unfortunately, they do not 
appear to have provided the software necessary to boot UNIX up in the
first place!
	Has anyone else run into this problem and found a solution
(other than configuring the SI 9761 as two RM05's)?  

Allan Trumpour
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