SCSI as boot disk

Stuart Lynne sl at van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca
Fri Aug 24 09:13:23 AEST 1990


The SCO Xenix GT doc's explicitly state that you cannot have a SCSI boot
disk and a regular hard disk controller in the same system. This does work
however if the regular hard disk controller is addressed at the second hard
disk controller location. 

The trick is that you may have to build the /dev/entries yourself. I had
working RLL drives already on the second controller and just wanted to swap 
the main ESDI for a SCSI leaving them in place. Just made the device
entries and it seems to work fine.

I suspect that just using:
	
		mkdev hd 0 1 

and telling the script that your boot controller is ST506 will work to add 
an ST506 controller (addressed as the second controller) to a SCSI based
system.

-- 
Stuart.Lynne at wimsey.bc.ca ubc-cs!van-bc!sl 604-937-7532(voice) 



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