From: ohland@charter.net
My DIMM memories suggest there is a utility to enable/disable RIPL.
Must surf.
Carlos Albuquerque wrote:
> A quarta-feira, 6 de maio de 1998 à(s) 08:00:00 UTC+1, Louis Ohland
escreveu:
>> Brilliant comments from godlike intellects deleted.
>>>>> Is there a listing of the procedure for replacing a SCSI drive for
>>>>> this machine. I would think it should be straightforward, but since
>>>>> this is a machine with an IML file (or whatever it's called) on disk
>> The IBM HMM has the 9556 OB6 and OBA listed as IML.
>> The 8556 14x, 24x, 043, 044, 055 are non-IML (supposedly)
>> Not that IBM would EVER do something odd and not tell the customers....
>
>
> Hello,
>
> It is my first time here!
> Just to let you know that the 8556 24X is also IML
> I have one. From the factory, it is medialess (without the hard drive and
floppy). It used a MCA network card or something like that to boot and work.
> But, in all of documentation that I read, It should be possible to "convert"
it to a "regular" PS/2 8556 56SX by adding the floppy and the HDD.
> So, I added both floppy (2.88MB) and a SCSI HDD, but I am having a lot of
trouble to restore (or should I say, create) an IML partition on HDD.
> It is perfectly recognised by the tools in the reference disk, it formats
ok, but no IML restore...
> It suspect that is because the HDD is 2GB in size. But it is the only one
that I have!
>
> Do you know if there is a way to make this a working machine?
>
> By the way, the boot is not possible not even from the floppy drive!
> Because of the model 24X, it says that the boot is only possible from the
"network" card or from a SCSI drive with ID 6.
>
> Do you know if the ROM file is swapable by other model that do not have this
limitation?
>
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
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