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From: Zachary DeAquila zachary@zachs.place.org
Subject: SCSI with NCR53C810
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 03:50:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19950911075032._XqmqFUMIZQ3uetyk-RojN8iQqqS12f9JCkKXbWTKqY@z> (raw)


>From:	"Nigel Roles" <ngr@symbionics.co.uk>
>Organization:  Symbionics Communications
>To:	9fans@cse.psu.edu
>Date:	Fri, 8 Sep 1995 04:42:04 -0400
>Subject:       Re: SCSI with NCR53C810
>Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
>
>
> 
>> Does anyone have/has anyone written/where do I get a driver so that I can
>> install Plan9 on my
>> SCSI drive?  The controller is based on the NCR53C810 SCSI chip, and the
>> machine in
>> question has *no* IDE drives, nor ways for me add them since it's a notebook.
>> Is there any
>> way I can 'bootstrap' by putting DOS on the drive and then putting plan9 on
>> the drive
>> and letting it install itself over the DOS partition?  maybe with a RAMdisk?
>> I'd really
>> like to try this OS out...
>> 
>>  --Zachary
> 
>Executive summary - yes. I've got a version of the loader and kernel 
>which support the NCR series. I guess you want the 4 disk version, 
>because you ain't going to buy the CDROM first off. I need to know if 
>it's OK to make available an alternate 4 disk solution 'for free'. 
>Anyone at the Labs wish to comment?
>

I've seen no response to this, so I'm posting it here again for someone 
from Bell Labs to comment on and hopefully give Nigel the go ahead to 
make/give me the disks so I can try out this fine OS...

 --Zachary








             reply	other threads:[~1995-09-11  7:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-09-11  7:50 Zachary [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1995-09-14 13:23 Frank
1995-09-12 13:46 Lambert
1995-09-08 18:14 Clint
1995-09-08 12:16 Lambert
1995-09-08  8:42 Nigel
1995-09-07 23:47 Zachary

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