Re: Hello world!

["Alistair Lambie" <alambie@wellington.sgi.com>]

On Mar 14, 10:32am, Mike Shaver wrote:
> Subject: Hello world!
> Looks like I'm getting an Indy when I get back to Ottawa next week, so
> I'd like to hear from others (hello?) as to what kind of work we're
> looking at in the short term.
>
> Since I don't grok assembler (my private shame), I don't know how much
> help I'll be at the low-level system stage.  I'm quite interested in
> working on userland stuff, and will gladly do any kernel mucking that
> I can handle.  (And if someone wants to give me a crash assembly
> course, well... =) )
>
> I understand that we're looking to get a source repository out on the
> 'net, which would be a good start.  What are people planning to start
> with first?  (I suppose talking to disks is a priority... =) )
>

Umm...I'm sure David got the SCSI stuff going....infact let's look back in my
Outgoing mailbox....Yup, here we go:

  WD93:Driver version 1.21 compiled on Jul 11 1996 at 07:19:23
  wd33c93-0: chip-WD22c93B microcode=0d
  scsi0 : SGI WD93
  scsi : 1 host
  Started kswapd v 1.2
    Vendor: SGI       Model: SEAGATE ST31230N  Rev: 0272
    Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
  Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
    Vendor: SGI       Model: IBMDSAS-3540      Rev: S47K
    Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
  Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
  scsi : detected 2 SCSI disks total
  SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2070235 [1010 MB] [1.0 GB]
  SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 1070496 [522 MB] [0.5 GB]
  sgiseeq.....
  eth0:......
  Partition check:
   sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
   sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 sdb4
  Sending BOOTP.....

It was a little slow the first time, but he fixed that.  It understands SGI
partition tables.

Cheers, Alistair

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