AT&T SysV Rel 4.0 - SCSI Complaints

[gantzm]

cpcahil at virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:

> brando at uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Brandon Brown) writes:
> 
> >also. It seems that AT&T looks for the SCSI ident string on the drive, and
> >that is how it determines whether or not it is a supported device. This also
        [stuff deleted]

> You can fix this several ways.  
> 
> 	1. use a binary editor to replace the AT&T strings on the boot
> 	   disketttes so that it recognizes your devices.
> 
> 	2. Get the system loaded on a supported device and then change the
> 	   SCSI id tables in /etc/conf/pack.d/{scsi driver directories}.  There
> 	   are two directories (one for tapes and one for disks).
> 
> -- 
> Conor P. Cahill            (703)430-9247        Virtual Technologies, Inc.

        As the original poster of this wonderful mess, is this modification
easy?<Don't laugh too hard>  I'm a new system administrator, and sort
of know what I'm doing, enough to be dangerous I guess.  

        The saga continues....
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