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Article #231Booting from external drive
From: Vernard C. Martin
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:42
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:42
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One of our research groups here recently bougth 600 meg external Eclispse hard drive because the internal 300 meg maxtor that came with the cube is dying a slow death (and it sounds horrible). They want the cube to boot from the external disk and use the internal disk as temporary storage until it dies. From what I can figure out, the NeXT cube always boots from device 0 (or the special case of the internal optical). I can set the external disks logical unit number to 0 but then it should conflict with the internal disks drive? Correct? I was wondering how I can change the internal disks SCSI unit number so that the cube won't boot from it. We will are running NS 1.0 but are going to upgrade to 2.1 before we do this disk change so any answers should be based on NS 2.1. thanks in advance for any advice. V Vernard Martin (vernard@cc.gatech.edu) Georgia Tech College of Computing
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!cc.gatech.edu!news From: vernard@cc.gatech.edu (Vernard C. Martin) Subject: Booting from external drive Message-ID: <1992Jul21.154240.19780@cc.gatech.edu> Sender: news@cc.gatech.edu Reply-To: vernard@cc.gatech.edu Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:42:40 GMT Lines: 17