rory@fps.com (Thomas (Rory) Bolt) (02/27/91)
I am the VERY happy owner of both the 040 and 2.0 upgrades now! I have run into difficulties with the handling of removable media drives under 2.0, and I believe I have identified two bugs: First my system: 040 cube, 2.0, 16 Mbytes memory SCSI ID 2 Fujitsu M2263S Boot drive SCSI ID 3 Maxtor XT-4380-S SCSI ID 4 Sony CDU-541 CDRom SCSI ID 5 Teac 2.8 MB floppy SCSI ID 6 Quantum Original 40 MB swapper Bug 1) If you have a removable media drive with a SCSI ID less than that of your swap device, your swap device will not be used if media is not present during the boot due to a bug in rc.swap Fix 1) comment out the line in rc.swap as shown below: case $swapstatus in 0) # break; COMMENT OUT THIS LINE! ;; Bug 2) If you have a CDRom drive with a SCSI ID less than your SCSI floppy, the buildDOS command will prompt you to insert a disk into your CDRom unit, which it will promptly try to format. Fix 2) If you want to use buildDOS, make sure your SCSI floppy is the lowest SCSI ID of all your drives with removable media. I believe this bug will also preclude the use of buildDOS on multiple SCSI floppy drive units. A device menu selection such as the new one in builddisk would sure be great! Rory P.S. The only thing I have ever prepaid and waited for longer then my 040 upgrade is my refund from BusinessLand! Refund voucher issued 11/21/90 and still no check!!!