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- From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
- Subject: Re: 386bsd installation problem for an EISA machine. (continue)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.233442.4976@tfs.com>
- Organization: TRW Financial Systems
- References: <AOKI.92Dec24024946@risk.Stanford.EDU> <AOKI.92Dec24193843@risk.Stanford.EDU>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 23:34:42 GMT
- Lines: 101
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- In article <AOKI.92Dec24193843@risk.Stanford.EDU> aoki@risk.stanford.edu (ikuro aoki) writes:
- >Hello all,
- >
- >First, thank you very much for all who gave ma information.
- >I am still struggling with the installation, and report it
- >this time.
- >
- > "as0d: controller error 0x12 reading fsbn 0"
- > "scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0 x30 times) 0 0 0 0 0 0"
- >
- >According an information, "It means that either no disks or no
- >controllers were found in the probe phase. "
-
- The problem is that the aha1742 does not correctly emulate 1542 intructions
- 3 and 4 (used in the 'as' driver)
-
- >
- >Some people suggested to check Adaptek 1742 configration.
- >Yes, I checked it again,
- > Adaptec 1742 port 0x330, irq 11, drq 5 (factory setting)
- > Standard mode (BIOS 0xCC000 enabled)
- >
- that's all ok
-
- >Then, as another recommendation, I tried a newbootable for 1740
- >which are in ref.tfs.com:/usr/bootdisks.
- >
- > size timestamp name
- > a) 1228800 Nov 22 15:09 dist.fs.aha1742-only
- > b) 1225728 Dec 3 16:33 fixit.1742a.fs
- > c) 1228800 Nov 22 14:36 fixit.fs.aha1742-only
- >
- >a) and c) endless booting, boot -> reboot -> reboot ...... (ah!)
- yes I will rebuild them
-
- >
- >b) booted correctly, probing information was
- >
- > ... 386BSD copyrights ... [0.1.4 10/17/92 18:28]
- > pc0<color> at 0x60 irq 1 on isa
- > com0 fifo at 0x3f8 irq 4 on isa
- > com1 fifo at 0x2f8 irq 3 on isa
- > fd drives 0: 1.44M 1: 1.2M 0x3f0 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
- > ahb0 reading board settings
- > ** ahb0 probing for scsi devices **
- > dev, lu0, type 0(direct), fixed 'MICROP 2112-15MMxxxxxx',scsi1
- > sd0 992MB cyls 1760, head 15, secs 77, bytes/sec 512
- > we0 ethernet address 00: : : : : : at 0x280 irq 9 on isa
- > npx at 0xf0 irq 13 on isa
- > sd0: no disk label
- >
- > FIXIT Floppy Release 0.1
- >
- >Because the fixit doesn't have 'install' program, I made another
- >boot floppy from a) binary.
- >Then, boot from b) and mount a) floppy to the kernel,
- >like 'mount /dev/fd1a /mnt'
- >
- >I could execute the installation program, much better than the
- >last time :-), but installation was failed again.
- >
- > High level formatting of 386BSD disk strage.
- > newfs: /dev/ras0a device not configured.
- > Could not format filesystem Installation failed.
- >
- >I checked the disklabel of the fixed disk, that was ... something
- >worng. Even I use 'disklabel' program manualy, I couldn't give a
- >correct disklabel for the hard disk.
- >
- >Finally, here is my new questions,
- > 1) why did 'disklabel' and 'newfs' fail.
-
- a SNAFU with naming and partitions.
-
- > 2) Is there a limitation for the number of HDD cylinders?
- > like the 1024 DOS limitation.
- no
- >
- ># Probably, I have to buy Adaptec 1542B adapter... :-(
- No, the aha1742 is FULLY SUPPORTED.
-
- the new disks are using the NEW scsi drivers.
- the devices are called sd0[abcdefgh]
- rather than as0[abcdefgh], though as0 and sd0 are the same device
- (same major/minor numbers)
- if you can use "disklabel -r -w sd0 <disktab-entry> <label> <sdboot> <bootsd>"
- you may have more success.
-
- >--
- >Ikuro Aoki
- >aoki@risk.Stanford.EDU
-
-
- julian
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