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- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!unipalm!uknet!root44!praxis!jez
- From: jez@praxis.co.uk (Jeremy Prior)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: RiscIX 1.15 SCSI drive problems
- Summary: Can't build SCSI drive under RiscIX 1.15
- Keywords: R140 st506 RiscIX SCSI
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.163655.1361@praxis.co.uk>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 16:36:55 GMT
- Organization: Praxis plc, Bath, England.
- Lines: 59
-
- [ Posting this for a friend without news or email access. Please feel
- free to reply either directly to me, or phone one of the numbers at
- the bottom of the article, for the more direct approach :-)
- Thanks, jez ]
-
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- From: Lynton Challoner
- Subject: RiscIX 1.15 SCSI drives
-
- I have an R140 with 2 x 45Mb st506 drives and a 100Mb Quantum LP105s
- SCSI, a VIDC enhancer, a Technomatic A5 scanner and a EIZO multi-sync
- monitor. (The SCSI card is Acorn Issue 2 + EPROM v1.05)
-
- I recently purchased the SCSI card & drive, formatted, sectioned and
- partitioned it for RiscIX and followed the instructions in the Acorn
- Technical Note on how to install it to the letter, and I cannot get
- scsidm to recognise my device drivers (which means the next step of
- updating disktab and newfs-ing the drive isn't possible).
-
- The devices in question are created by:
- mknod sd0a b 12 0 ; chmod 640 sd0a; chgrp operator sd0a
- mknod rsd0a c 21 1 ; chmod 640 rsd0a; chgrp operator rsd0a
- mknod rsd0h c 21 7 ; chmod 640 rsd0h; chgrp operator rsd0h
-
- This I have experimented with until the cows arrived home, but I have
- another serious problem which is that my (internal) root drive is
- defective and my kernel repair kit (dutifully built years ago) will
- only repair the kernel on this drive. My system will not stay up long
- enough to enable me to re-create these floppies or clone the system
- fully onto the other st506. I even have a zero level dump to restore
- (from 800k floppies ugh!) if I can bootstrap the whole thing somehow.
- I am running in about 35Mb on an external drive with a ropey copy of
- RiscIx 1.13.
-
- If there is nothing wrong with the device set up, the partitioning
- then is there some crucial patch on between 1.13 and 1.5 which
- will solve the problem ?
-
- A far simpler solution would be to clone someones 1.15 system.
- If there is any generous person out there who lives in the
- south west (Avon, Wilts, Glos, Devon, Gwent) who has a pristine
- RiscIX 1.15 system and is prepared to have me copy it ?
-
- Needless my maintenance cover lapsed a long time ago, and
- to purchase a copy of RiscIx 2.0 is out of question at the
- moment.
-
- Thanks in advance,
- Lynton.
- ---
- Lynton Challoner
- Home Number: 0225-315885
- Work Number: 0793-888481, (0793-886171 fax)
-
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- Jeremy Prior (jez) Telephone: +44 225 444700
- Praxis plc, 20 Manvers Street, Telex: 445848 PRAXIS G
- Bath, AVON, BA1 1PX, UK Fax: +44 225 465205
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