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From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
Subject: Re: 386BSD Installation
Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 14:38:42 GMT
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In <1993Jan31.224750.19475@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
>This is probably why AT&T provides SVR4.0 SCSI and ESDI bootables on two
>sets of disks rather than just a single set of disks: they couldn't fix
>it either.

Actually it's not. AT&T was simply to stupid to figure out how to
make the SCSI subsystem support more than one host adaptor.

BTW, EURIX and Generics UNIX V.4 were able to determine if either of a
WD1003/ESDI/IDE adaptor, an AHA154x, an AHA174x or a WD7000 were
present in the system (even on the installation floppies).  So it's
possible to get that right.

-- 
				Christoph Badura  ---  bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org

Personally, I don't care whether someone is cool enough to quote Doug
Gwyn--I only care whether Doug Gwyn is cool enough to quote. -- Larry Wall