larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) (02/14/91)
alexb@cfctech.cfc.com (Alex Beylin) writes: >That won't work even with ISC 2.2. As specified in the manual (and tried), >MFM must be the primary controller. There is a possibility of adding >the MFM controller after the system is loaded, but no-one that I know of have >tried that yet. we at one time were booting off a 1542A (SCSI) and had a 2372B (RLL) installed as the secondary controller (secondary addressing, secondary interrupts - and floppy controller disabled by cutting traces). We had to change some of the addressing in /etc/conf/sdevices.d to match what we had done - but it is possible with a little work (we did this only once with 2.02 about 14 months ago).. -- Larry Snyder, NSTAR Public Access Unix 219-289-0287 (HST/PEP/V.32/v.42bis) regional UUCP mapping coordinator {larry@nstar.rn.com, ..!uunet!nstar!larry, larry%nstar@iuva