#: 17868 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
05-Apr-93 12:57:34
Sb: #17853-OS-9 Config 4 SCSI Boot
Fm: Kim Kempf 71161,3221
To: Peter Baxter 74650,2522
You are misunderstanding how the disk booting process works. It's the part of
OS-9 in ROM that knows how to "boot" devices. The rom for your cpu already
knows how to operate the 53c710 hardware to read a bootfile from a scsi target.
You need to have a booter in the rom that knows how to operate the Ciprico
controller in order to boot from that. There is nothing you can do to the
bootfile or driver to change this. The rom booter is the thing that reads in
the bootfile...sort of a chicken and egg problem.
Making a rom boot routine requires the Portpak source code and lots of
knowledge. Your best bet would be to contact Ultrascience to see if they can
add a Ciprico booter to the ROM.
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