Problems installing CDC Wren VI

[Geoffrey H. Cooper]

In article <4673 at brazos.Rice.edu> S1.FXK at isumvs.iastate.edu (FRITZ KEINERT) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 23, message 9 of 14
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>The  relationship  between minor device numbers (as far as the Sun OS is
>concerned) and the device number that the drive is jumpered to is this:
>minor  device  number  =  8  * drive number. Thus, the Wren VI jumpered
>to position 1 should be major device 7 (or whatever), minor device  8.
>During boot, our machine shows something like "device sd2 master 7 slave
>8" or whatever it is. Anyway, our Wren VI, jumpered to position 1, is
>known to the system as sd2.

I also noticed this sort of behavior.  I believe it is because Sun is
mapping the internal drives to sd0 and sd1, leaving sd2 and sd3 for
external.  Our Wren VI's are jumpered to zero, and I was surprised to find
that this caused them to be sd3.  It looks like Sun is internally mapping
the drive numbers to 3-drive#.

Anyway, my SS1 monitor is perfectly content to boot off sd3a, so there is
really no problem (setenv boot-from sd(0,3,0)vmunix).

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