naftoli@aecom.UUCP (Robert N. Berlinger) (08/09/85)
A bug in the general disk boot has kept our new /750 down for two
weeks now. We have Fuji Eagle 2351A's on an Emulex SC7000
controller configured as expanded RM80s. We recompiled the
bootstrap stuff with the expanded sector and track sizes and
wrote a new boot tape. Root would load in but the sash just
wouldn't boot up. The problem was in the boot loader. I assume
no one has ever booted off of an RM80 because they'd have the
same problem. The loader has a table of disks types and
associated track and sector*track numbers. RM80 is the last on
the list. Of course, the bug is that the loader fails to look at
the last entry in the table! Moving RM80 to the top of the list did
the trick.
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Robert Berlinger
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