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- From: zxmsd01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Gunther Schadow)
- Subject: Re: IDE drive woes (need for comp.unix.386bsd)
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- References: <1992Jul19.062932.17244@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:37:26 GMT
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- In <1992Jul19.062932.17244@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes:
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- >I think now that 0.1 is out there will be a strong need for a comp.unix.386bsd
- >There will be a lot of questions which may be profane and boring to those
- >not interested in 386bsd but interested in bsd in general.
-
- According to Bill and Lynne (see INSTALL.NOTES) they are about to
- achieve a group comp.os.386bsd.
-
- >What has to be done to achieve this?
- maybe ask Bill otherwise just wait for it to come.
-
- >To start with one of these above mentioned question:
-
- >I think the 0.1 distribution has problems with IDE drives.
- >I tried to format my Maxtor 7120 with various combinations of
- >tracks/heads/sectors and always I get either
-
- I think that Seagate ST3144A is an IDE drive and I have no problem
- with it. Check if your drive is (1) correctly installed (2) correctly
- partitioned (by DOS' fdisk) (3) correctly (medium-level) formated by
- DOS' format (4) that the install program finds a partition with type
- 0xa5 (= 165) (5) that the disktab entry is correct (ST3144A was
- automaticly detected by 386BSD) and (6) that the 386bsd partition is
- correctly high level formated by 386BSD's disklabel.
-
- >Input/Output error on /dev/wd0a
- DOS'formated? disktab?
- > or
- >cd: can't cd to /mnt
- > or
- >mount: /dev/wd0a invalid argument
-
- >Can anyone confirm that there is a problem or do I have to change hardware?
-
- No I don't think so. I even don't think that there has any software to
- be changed.
-
- >--Christoph P. Kukulies
- schoene Gruesse
- -Gunther
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