Re: Booting from SCSI drive at address 1 vs. 0

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From: Mike McNeill
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1989 11:10

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lupine!infopiz!mark@uunet.uu.net (Mark Pizzolato 415-369-9366) writes:
>We've got lots of Sun 3/60s and LOTS more SCSI disk drives.  From time to
>time it has been desirable to boot Sun OS 3.x from a SCSI disk whose SCSI
>address is other than 0.  We have been totally unsuccessful with regard to
>achieving this result.  Any ideas?

I had the exact same situation earlier on a standalone 3/60 with 2 SCSI
disks (addrs 0 and 1).  The formula I got for determing unit in b(cntlr,
unit, part) for embedded SCSI disks is unit = SCSI_address << 2.  I leave
it to someone else to explain _why_ this is so...............Mike

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From: mcneil@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Mike McNeill)
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Subject: Re: Booting from SCSI drive at address 1 vs. 0
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Date: 25 Apr 89 11:10:59 GMT
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