If my memory serves me correctly, the only way that the 922 could boot from
a scsi drive was with a pdc firmware patch - which was available from HP
many years ago.
At 11:45 AM 2004-07-16, Denys Beauchemin wrote:
>No luck anywhere else. The HP site is useless for such old machines
>that predate the World Wide Web :-).
>
>John Lee is your last best hope.
>
>Somehow I think there is no SCSI disk drive "awareness" in the
>bootstraps of the 92x series machine. No SCSI disk drivers in firmware
>so to speak, only HP-IB.
>
>Good luck to you.
>
>
>Denys
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of Denys Beauchemin
>Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 10:23 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] HP 3000, 922LX - LDEV 1
>
>http://raven.utc.edu/cgi-bin/WA.EXE?A2=ind9701d&L=hp3000-l&F=&S=&P=6000
>
>Still looking, though.
>
>Denys
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>Behalf Of Johnson, Tracy
>Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 10:10 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] HP 3000, 922LX - LDEV 1
>Importance: Low
>
>There "is" a SCSI card.
>
>May I presume that all I need to do is change the PRImary boot path?
>
>BT
>
>
>Tracy Johnson
>MSI Schaevitz Sensors
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> > Behalf Of John Lee
> > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 11:02 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] HP 3000, 922LX - LDEV 1
> >
> >
> > They are HPIB. There was a way to boot from SCSI in that family of
> > servers, but I can't remember it off the top of my head. If
> > I had to, I
> > could look it up but I don't have time till next week.
> >
> > John Lee
> >
> >
> > At 08:44 AM 7/16/04 -0500, Denys Beauchemin wrote:
> > >I believe the disk drives in the 922LX are of the HP-IB
> > persuasion. I
> > >seriously doubt an HP-IB disk drive has been manufactured in
> > the last 15
> > >years.
> > >
> > >It may be a SCSI drive if you have a SCSI card installed on
> > the system.
> > >I don't really remember, it has been so very long.
> > >
> > >Just look at the connector and describe it to us.
> > >
> > >Denys
> > >
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > >Behalf Of Johnson, Tracy
> > >Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 7:36 AM
> > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > >Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] HP 3000, 922LX - LDEV 1
> > >Importance: Low
> > >
> > >Speaking of 922's, how difficult is it to replace LDEV 1 with
> > >a more recent Hard Drive? I opened it up and it sits at the
> > >bottom of the cabinet with all the spiders.
> > >
> > >Any gotchas?
> > >
> > >BT
> > >
> > >
> > >Tracy Johnson
> > >MSI Schaevitz Sensors
> > >
> > >
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