beaucham@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (James Beauchamp) (04/20/91)
I received my standalone PLI Superfloppy 2.8 last week. Following all of the instructions in their written manual, I carefully installed the unit. With the unit attached to the NeXT via SCSI, the NeXT will not boot. Although the manual states that the NeXT will try to boot off of device 1 (the internal hard disk), the boot-up message says it is trying for device 6 (the PLI). I had the UIUC campus software guru over to my lab, and he couldn't see what was wrong. I called PLI and the suggestions they gave didn't do any good. They don't seem to know much about the NeXT. NeXTConnection sent another unit. It does the same thing, so I am stuck. Is there anyone who is using this unit with the NeXT who could offer any suggestions? Please give me your phone no. so I can call you for details. Jim Beauchamp j-beauchamp@uiuc.edu
briand@rfengr.com (Brian Dear) (04/24/91)
We recently got our external PLI superfloppy as well and have similar problems getting the NeXTcube to boot. It's a 68040-upgrade cube, 8mb RAM, 340MB HD, optical drive... I'd say the machine boots correctly about 25% of the time. The rest of the time I have to Command-Command-tilde and then type "b"... I too, followed the PLI manual instructions to the letter. And even called PLI. Talked to someone who didn't know much about the NeXT... -- brian dear coconut computing, inc. brian@coconut.com
cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu (04/25/91)
In article <1991Apr24.050058.677@rfengr.com> briand@rfengr.com (Brian Dear) writes:
I'd say the machine boots correctly about 25% of the time. The rest
of the time I have to Command-Command-tilde and then type "b"...
what does this mean? what happens the other 75% of the time? have you
turned on verbose boot mode and watched the monitor through out a bad
boot? What appears on the monitor.
--
"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster,
and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzschefinn@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Lee Samuel Finn) (04/25/91)
In article <1991Apr24.050058.677@rfengr.com> brian@coconut.com writes: > >We recently got our external PLI superfloppy as well and have similar >problems getting the NeXTcube to boot. It's a 68040-upgrade cube, 8mb >RAM, 340MB HD, optical drive... > >I'd say the machine boots correctly about 25% of the time. The rest >of the time I have to Command-Command-tilde and then type "b"... > >I too, followed the PLI manual instructions to the letter. And even >called PLI. Talked to someone who didn't know much about the NeXT... > >-- brian dear > coconut computing, inc. > brian@coconut.com Just for the record, I purchased a PLI superfloppy 2.8 and it installed and worked like a charm. First time, everytime. My cube is the same as described above, except I've also got a printer.