[9fans] Still more newbie blather

[9fans] Still more newbie blather

[James G. Stallings II]

Greetings, 9fans!

Here's some more rambling about what I'm doing with plan 9.  Feel free
to respond as you see fit. All suggestions welcome.

I just got some more old hardware, this time a 100mhz dx4 486. It's
quite a bit better than the dx2 66 I was using. Unfortunately I don't
have a working system assembled at the moment.

Some stuff that came with it: a pertec 120mb "floppy" tape drive; and a
600+mb micropolis scsi II drive. The scsi host adapter is a DTC 3280as.
Is there any possibility that this junk is supported? I'm thinking slow
storage behind a file server; active storage<-scsi disk<-pertec tape.
Not exactly high performance stuff, but it's right here under my hands.

I'm starting to get serious enough about this to think in terms of
better hardware; what direction should I be taking in terms of
fileserver storage? Obviously I'm not about to install a big CD jukebox
to backend the fileserver ;^)

Thanks for listening to me ruminate-

James



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Re: [9fans] Still more newbie blather

[Milton]

On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 17:57:04 GMT, in comp.os.plan9

James G. Stallings II wrote:

>
>Greetings, 9fans!
>
>Here's some more rambling about what I'm doing with plan 9.  Feel free
>to respond as you see fit. All suggestions welcome.
>
>I just got some more old hardware, this time a 100mhz dx4 486. It's
>quite a bit better than the dx2 66 I was using. Unfortunately I don't
>have a working system assembled at the moment.
>
>Some stuff that came with it: a pertec 120mb "floppy" tape drive; and a
>600+mb micropolis scsi II drive. The scsi host adapter is a DTC 3280as.
>Is there any possibility that this junk is supported? I'm thinking slow
>storage behind a file server; active storage<-scsi disk<-pertec tape.
>Not exactly high performance stuff, but it's right here under my hands.

Isthis the SCSI adapter?
http://www.datatechnology.com/support/guides/3x80/3x80as2.shtml
Does it have a chipset on it named Symbios 53C810 or NCR 53C810?

I doubt if the floppy tape device is supported.


>I'm starting to get serious enough about this to think in terms of
>better hardware; what direction should I be taking in terms of
>fileserver storage? Obviously I'm not about to install a big CD jukebox
>to backend the fileserver ;^)

I would think of a SCSI tape device or CD-RW using the scuzz prog
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/8/scuzz

Hope this helps

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Re: [9fans] Still more newbie blather

[Darrell]

In article <394BB632.213208CB@yahoo.com> you wrote:
>

> 
> Greetings, 9fans!
> 
> Here's some more rambling about what I'm doing with plan 9.  Feel free
> to respond as you see fit. All suggestions welcome.
> 
> I just got some more old hardware, this time a 100mhz dx4 486. It's
> quite a bit better than the dx2 66 I was using. Unfortunately I don't
> have a working system assembled at the moment.
> 
> Some stuff that came with it: a pertec 120mb "floppy" tape drive; and a
> 600+mb micropolis scsi II drive. The scsi host adapter is a DTC 3280as.
> Is there any possibility that this junk is supported? I'm thinking slow
> storage behind a file server; active storage<-scsi disk<-pertec tape.
> Not exactly high performance stuff, but it's right here under my hands.
> 
> I'm starting to get serious enough about this to think in terms of
> better hardware; what direction should I be taking in terms of
> fileserver storage? Obviously I'm not about to install a big CD jukebox
> to backend the fileserver ;^)
> 
> Thanks for listening to me ruminate-
>
I am a newbie myself,  and could not get plan 9 booting on my 486. I have it on disk and when I try to floppy boot it, it shows "PBS... Plan 9 by Bell Labs", 
and then it reboot. it repeats the cycle, 
Do you have any advice to what I might do to get Plan 9 running?

darrell 

Re: [9fans] Still more newbie blather

[Douglas A. Gwyn]

Darrell wrote:
> ... when I try to floppy boot it, it shows "PBS... Plan 9 by Bell
> Labs", and then it reboot.

My first guess is that you have a bad floppy disk.  Try a different
one with a *fresh* download.  Don't use RAWRITE.EXE under Windows
NT (including 2000 Pro); stick to Windows 9x or some sort of UNIX
("dd" for the latter with bs= the exact size of the 1.4MB image).

There is some sort of problem with the floppy device support used
in the installation floppy (9disk); on some systems it works fine,
on others it works occasionally, and on still others it never works.