[SPARCbook] SB3 and short reads

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On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Ken Hansen wrote:

> I was thinking of the connector between the sled and the laptop, not the
> sled and the internal drive...
> 
<snip>
> HTH, good-luck,

Your luck was, apparently, more useful then any other advice I've gotten
tonight.  

I went back to check probe-scsi and probe-scsi-all, and to try booting
from the external drive.  Lo and behold, both sleds now boot the OS fine,
no problems, no hiccups, nothing.  

I suppose I should just chalk this up to One Of Those Things, and let it
ride.

I do have one last question - mostly a clarifiction.  When I execute
"shutdown -g0", the system works for a while, then comes to a point where
it says to enter root password or ctrl-d for maintenance.  At this point,
I do a stop-a and a power-off.  Is this the proper point to do this?  It's
in single-user at this point, as best I can tell, so I don't see why not.

Thanks for the clarification and the advice, all around.


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