Syquest 270 using mtools

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2 total messages Started by Dirk Reiners Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:00

#175

Author: Dirk Reiners
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:00

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Hi folks,

has anybody ever gotten a Syquest 270 for DOS to work on an SGI?

I have a version of mtools that can handle raw SCSI on SGI, and it does
read the boot sector, but it seems to be garbled by a Syquest message
talking about being non-bootable (which is correct). How can I use this
medium? It looks like mtools absolutely needs the boot sector to accept
the disk as a DOS disk.

Any hints?

Thanks a lot

	Dirk

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Re: Syquest 270 using mtools

#176

Author: Dirk Reiners
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 00:00

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Hi netters,

following up on my own post, because I got my Syquest 270 work with an
SGI:

using the latest version of mtools from
http://webplaza.pt.lu/public/alknaff/mtools/index.html (at the time of
doing it pre3-3.9) and a configuration like

drive s: file="/dev/scsi/sc1d6l0" scsi=1 partition=1

for a Syquest attached to controller 1 at ID 6.

Who said it couldn't be done? ;)

Hope it helps some other people

	Dirk

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