How to add a 3rd party scsi to an AT&T 3b2
Geoff Coleman
geoff at edm.uucp
Fri Sep 28 07:09:09 AEST 1990
So how do you add a third party scsi device to an
AT&T 3B2 ???
1.) turn off 3b2 and attcah device to scsi bus using an unused
id #.
2) turn on 3b2 and watch the console (or put a hardcopy device on it)
The 3b2 will say unknown device maker, model. You need this information
in step three.
3) - cd to /etc/scsi
- run ./edittbl -l to list devices presently known
- run ./edittbl -i to add a device and answer the questions
- The first entry is the make and must be padded out to 8 characters
- The second entry is the model and must be padded out to 16
characters.
- The number of lu's is 1 unless it is a bridge controller.
- the AT&T device type is ST01 for a tape, SD01 for a disk.
4) - cd to /usr/lib/scsi
- using vi (or yout favorite editor) edit tc.index
- add an entry for your new disk ala the entries already there
- make sure you have the model number starting at column 9 ( no spaces)
and that it occupies 16 spaces ( any less and the format step will
fail)
5) reboot the system
- it should say that you have an unformatted disk at scsi slot n.
- run format to format the disk (if you get a cannot open scipt file
check the spacing of the maker/model lin in tc.index
Hope this helps someone.
Geoff Coleman
Unexsys Systems
p.s. it works for a MAXTOR XT-8760S
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