[SunRescue] Booting a Sun3

David Murphy drjolt at redbrick.dcu.ie
Tue Aug 31 06:47:56 CDT 1999


Quoting <199908292341.AA10033 at picarefy.picarefy.com>
by "James W. Birdsall" <jwbirdsa at picarefy.picarefy.com>:

>    You probably got this working a while ago (I'm running way behind
> on my mail), but here's some thoughts:

>    1) Sun-3's will not boot from a disk that has SCSI parity turned on.

This turned out to be my problem - unfortunately, it's not possible to
disable SCSI parity on the conner drives Sun used in the 207MB Desktop
Storage Pack, so I'm stuck until I acquire another SCSI drive to
replace it.

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