On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 11:59:49 -0700 Mark Pizzolato <m...@infocomm.com> wrote:
> On Friday, July 12, 2019 at 11:27 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: > > As far as I am aware, it was only some models in the 3100 series > > that used the shorter SCSI commands in the boot rom, which caused > > issues with the boot disk. However, I'm not sure that exact thing > > is the problem. You might very well have some display issues that > > pop up in the boot monitor, even though the system will boot > > perfectly fine from a larger disk. > > On the older VS3100 systems (without large disk boot support), things > would boot fine on larger disks as long as the pieces of OS code that > are loaded in the early stages of the boot all happen to be located > early enough in the disk drive. Since you can't guarantee that all > the needed files would be located early in the drive large disks were > "not bootable". I fixed this by making the disks artificially smaller (by changing the firmware tables on the disk). _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
