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From: graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: zip drive on a pmax
Date: 4 Nov 1996 19:47:22 GMT
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just for your information - someone in port-pmax or comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc 
asked if a zip drive will work on a pmax - i tried it yesterday - the drive 
itself is accessable from BSD (i tried it with OpenBSD/pmax - but this 
should'nt make any difference) if you change conf-glue.c to use the rzdriver 
for the scsi-id 5 device - and use an kernel config file reflecting this (the 
zip drive can only be set to scsi id 5 or 6) - this way i could read and write 
the zip disk just fine - but i was'nt able to boot off it - i always got 
something like bad bootblk on the console - can it be that the pmax console 
has scsi id 5 also hardwired for (bootable) tapes ? - btw. i tried it on a ds 
2100 - is it possible to boot a pmax from a disk on scsi id 5 ? 
 
hope the info helps someone - and if someone has a suggestion to my question - 
thanks in advance 
 
t 

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  thomas graichen    graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de    graichen@FreeBSD.org

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      there is no longer anything to take away    antoine de saint-exupery