Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: mcneil@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Mike McNeill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Booting from SCSI drive at address 1 vs. 0 Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <23278@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> Date: 25 Apr 89 11:10:59 GMT References: <1354@infopiz.uucp> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 10 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Sat Apr 8 09:35:35 1989 X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 246, message 2 of 12 lupine!infopiz!mark@uunet.uu.net (Mark Pizzolato 415-369-9366) writes: >We've got lots of Sun 3/60s and LOTS more SCSI disk drives. From time to >time it has been desirable to boot Sun OS 3.x from a SCSI disk whose SCSI >address is other than 0. We have been totally unsuccessful with regard to >achieving this result. Any ideas? I had the exact same situation earlier on a standalone 3/60 with 2 SCSI disks (addrs 0 and 1). The formula I got for determing unit in b(cntlr, unit, part) for embedded SCSI disks is unit = SCSI_address << 2. I leave it to someone else to explain _why_ this is so...............Mike