Does anyone have any experience of running Haiku on a scsi drive? Is it possible? Will it boot from scsi?
TIA
El-Al
El-Al wrote:
Does anyone have any experience of running Haiku on a scsi drive? Is it possible? Will it boot from scsi?
I have a couple older SCSI adapters floating around (including an old adaptec 2940 I believe) - but I don’t really have any spare SCSI drives to test with. I think the old Mac LCIII has a 2gb SCSI drive in it - which I could wipe clean and test with I suppose.
I’ll give it some thought later on.
Thanks Urias, I don’t want to have to lose a working windows install when I partition the drive and have all the hassle re-installing windows (only to find that Haiku won’t boot from scsi). IIRC, BeOS was a little quirky on scsi systems…
El-Al
May I resurrect this topic?
I, too, tried to install Haiku on a SCSI device. I do get the bootloader but then it stops with something like 'Could’t mount boot device". I already tried different safe-mode settings without success. Is SCSI support still missing or is it some hardware issue on my side?
I have a Dual-P3 with an onboard AIC-7895.
Thanks!
Humdinger wrote:
May I resurrect this topic?I, too, tried to install Haiku on a SCSI device. I do get the bootloader but then it stops with something like 'Could’t mount boot device". I already tried different safe-mode settings without success. Is SCSI support still missing or is it some hardware issue on my side?
I have a Dual-P3 with an onboard AIC-7895.
Thanks!
I guess Scsi support will be fairly low on the priority list at the moment. AFAICT there is basic scsi support being written, however, I would imagine that specific drivers for the most popular boards will still have to be written and tested.
For me, I had space on a scsi drive for a haiku partition, far easier at the moment to install on an ide drive if there is one available.
All good things come to those who wait!!
Sorry for not ever getting around to this… I recently pulled the LC III out of the closet - and realized that there’s enough stuff on it that I don’t want to wipe the drive (yet)…
On the brighter side, I think I’ll fire up some old mac games for the kids 