Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!brunix!rca From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Next -SCSI error Message-ID: <31126@brunix.UUCP> Date: 1 Mar 90 16:30:04 GMT References: <8859@portia.Stanford.EDU> <1990Feb6.060809.15101@nueces.cactus.org> <723@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> <1170@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 14 try the following: after you power up the machine enter the monitor ( cmd-cmd-~ ) and then look at the boot parameters: (enter p) The system will show you several parameters and prompt you to give other values. In general you should NOT change them. Look however at, if I remember correctly, the first one. This is the bood command and should read " sd ". Also be sure that the boot extended diagnostics is set to no. Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Bernhard Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet