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From: cg-atla!weber@cg-atla.agfa.com (Jeff Weber)
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Subject: Re: XY753 on 4/330
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 9 Feb 90 13:48:02 GMT
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In article <4821@brazos.Rice.edu> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 32, message 11
>
>Since this subject was brought up a while back, and I don't think there
>was a definite answer from someone really knowledgeable, I am posting this
>just after performing such an installation.

GOOD.

>Actually, it worked quite well, I put the XY753 (6U VME board) into slot

	Stuffa deleta..

>Contrary to what I remember somebody posting before about the 4/330 boot
>rom not being able to boot from the drive (XD), this is false. The CPU
>board is EXACTLY the same as that in a 4/370, and it boots fine off XD0.

WRONGO!  I was the poster of that problem....The correct answer is:  "IT
WORKS NOW" with the later version of the boot ROMS! Early machines were
shipped with a set of ROMS that DID NOT SUPPORT booting anything other
than SCSI.  Going first has its rewards!  But no one was supposed to
notice I guess.....(cute how they do that) So, all that chatter about "its
supposed to" only applied to later machines that met "spec" which,
obviously, the early machines didn't.  My next 5 worked ok.  I guess the
moral to the story is: 

There's Sun's company line, there's Net Truth, And then there's what's
actually sitting in your lab.