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List:       netbsd-port-sparc
Subject:    Re: Booting my IPX
From:       Christian Smith <csmith () micromuse ! com>
Date:       2002-01-30 17:23:46
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On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Joerg Stephan wrote:

>On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, David Laight wrote:
>
>> > Are you sure the drive is OK? Does it work under normal, non booting
>> > conditions?
>>
>> Is it a drive from a sun system?  It probably needs to support 512 byte
>> sectors in order to boot the IPX, many drives only support 2048 byte
>> sectors.
>>
>Well, i tried it this days with an Toshiba SCSI CD-Rom which worked
>at an old NeXT. As i know NeXT only supports 512 byte sectors
>so this should be working. but it doesn't.
>I don't really know if my old IBM CD-Rom is working, but this
>Toshiba does an new installation of NeXTStep 3.3 on an NeXT so
>it should.

With SCSI, the first thing to check is cabling and terminators. Try use a
few different cables.

>
>Joerg
>

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