[parisc-linux] IPL Boot Parameters [Originally SCSI Disks on a K580 Help Required]

[Steve.Grady@csiro.au]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tobias Giesen [mailto:tobias_subscriber@tgtools.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 4 September 2002 12:23 PM
> To: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
> Subject: RE: [parisc-linux] IPL Boot Parameters [Originally SCSI Disks
> on a K580 Help Required]
> 
> 
> > My problem is that I only have disks available that 
> > will work on the Single ended SCSI bus.
> 
> Where did the original hard disk that came with the machine go?

I bought the K580 without it I have approached the guy I bought it from to
see if I
can purchase the drive but he has not followed it up yet.

I have looked on ebay but HVD UW SCSI disks are rare most are SCSI-3 LVD/SE
disks
and HVD is not compatible with LVD except by a translator which costs about
$1.5K AUD which
was more than I paid for the K580.

I know I should be able to boot from the tape (maybe I am a masochist) I
think this is my best shot
until I can find a HVD disk, if I can work out to tell the system how.

Thanks,


Steve Grady



> 
> Maybe you can get a small UW SCSI hard disk cheap from eBay 
> or something
> like that and use it for the root partition only. A few hundred MB's
> would suffice.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tobias
> 
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