The 948 can be booted from external SCSI disks (we have setup several
sites).  The key is to set the primary boot path to the new ldev 1 address.
I would recommend removing the old HP-IB drives to prevent any type of
conflict.

The question I have is whether 6.5 will support the CIO SCSI.  My
understanding is that the 6.5 release of the OS will not support CIO cards
and as such does not work with the 922, 925 and 980 series of processors.
Hopefully, someone can provide the official word on this.

Regards,
Steve

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Outer Banks Solutions, Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: John Burke <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2000 4:17 PM
Subject: Can a 948 be booted from SCSI?


> I've got an old 948 (NOT part of the 9x8 line) that I use for testing
> purposes (I do have software support for updates btw so it is legal but it
> has long since gone off hardware support). It has 2 SCSI cards, one for an
> external DDS tape drive and one for six 2GB SCSI disk drives. Internally,
it
> has two 670MB HP-IB disk drives and a HP-IB DDS drive.
>
> MPE/iX 6.5 will not support HP-IB, in fact it will not even have the code
> for HP-IB. Does anyone know if I can re-configure this 948 to, in effect,
> disable the HP-IB peripherals and primary boot from a SCSI drive and
> alternate boot from the SCSI tape drive? Does the TMUX present additional
> problems?
>
> John  Burke
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