[SunRescue] Re: Sun 2/120 Support for NetBSD

John Honniball rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu May 17 10:37:39 CDT 2001


On Thu, 17 May 2001 15:37:23 +0100 (BST) Chris Powell 
<Chris_Powell at mitel.com> wrote:
> I *think* the Sun 2 boot PROM only supported QIC11 tapes for booting.
> Most (all?) Sun 3 tape drives were natively QIC24.

I think they could do both, according to what minor device 
number was used.  Wasn't /dev/rst0 QIC11, and /dev/rst8 
QIC24?

> I net boot from a 3/260. Aside - if anyone in the UK has a 2/50 SCSI
> card/memory expansion I'd be interested :)

Are they the same as a 2/120?  Only I have a spare Multibus 
rack from a 2/120, with most of the cards in.  CPU, 
framebuffer, Ethernet for sure.  SCSI... I'd have to check.

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John Honniball
Email: John.Honniball at uwe.ac.uk
University of the West of England




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