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- From: rbk@icbl.hw.ac.uk (Richard Kirby)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: [386BSD] Problems with 2 IDE disks.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.115950.4657@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 11:59:50 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.hw.ac.uk (News Administrator)
- Organization: Institute for Computer Based Learning
- Lines: 38
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- Hi,
- I have a DC-2032 IDE cache card with a Fujitsu M2624T (500MB) as the master
- and a Conner CP3204 (210MB) as a slave (since I have no technical
- documentation for either drive I have had to play about with the jumpers until
- it worked - I actually wanted the Conner to be the master as that was my old
- disk and was already set up for 386BSD, but the Fujitsu refused to be
- subserviant).
-
- First of all, the default distribution would not see my Conner - the old set
- of patches didn't fix that either.
-
- So I fetched patchkit-0.2 from ref.tfs.com yesterday and tried it last night.
- I can now mount my second disk, but there are a couple of problems.
-
- 1) On booting, when polling for disks I get the following for both disks:
- <wdgetctlr failed, assuming OK>
-
- I put in a printf for the inb command which is done inside the wdgetctlr, and
- get the following:
- inb(497) = 4
- for both drives.
- (sorry I didn't split the expression up further - had to get some sleep :)
-
- Any ideas anyone? Does this mean that I haven't got the jumpers exactly right
- or is it a problem with the cache card?
-
- 2) I can fsck two of my three old partitions on the Conner, but on fscking
- the last partition it just sits there - I can interrupt it though and it says
- something about trying to do something with an impossibly negatively large
- number! (I know I should have written it down).
-
- Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-
- Thanks
-
- Richard.
-
- ps Does any think that I should try the barsoom wd driver?
-