Hey gang..
I found an older scsi drive at home that appears to have Openstep installed on it, so I pinned it out and it is recognized. It boots off the floppy then finds the CD-ROM then appears to be booting off the HD and gets stuck with the startup script. Is there an easy way to erase the drive in single user mode? It gets stuck when it is trying to setup the network.. I tried to dd with /dev/zero but Openstep doesn't have that device.
OK I figured out a way to get Openstep installed on the drive. It gets through the copying part no problem.. then on reboot it gives me a "Bad Label" error. Does anyone know what this means? The drive is some Compaq firmware Seagate, maybe this is the issue. I tried enable/disable termination, term power, ID's everything I could thing of, but it simply won't boot by itself.
I've heard that scsi drives that where part of a raid array can't be used due to custom firmware and some other hardware related issue.
This could be the case. The man I purchased the drive from used them for Toaster/Flyer stuff on the Amiga, they were just storage, not boot drives. I obtained a 2GB quantum drive and it installed with no problem. Thanks for the response.