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- From: spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Jim Blade's question on IDE drives' installation
- Message-ID: <24995.9208261606@thor.cf.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 16:06:19 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.040750.442@microsoft.com>
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- In article <1992Aug19.040750.442@microsoft.com> jhenshaw@microsoft.com (Jeff Henshaw) writes:
- |
- |In article 3773 in comp.unix.bsd, jim@blade (Jim Rump)
- |writes...
- |
- || A week later I bought an other IDE (SEAGATE).
- || Of course I tried to run the install script.
- || The result: BSD did work with DOS on the same HD.
- || My question is: Why do two IDE's differ in the way
- || discribed above?
- |
- |Please forgive me if this type of issue has been
- |re-hashed before, but I didn't see a response off hand.
- |
- |Machine: WYSE 386/16 4 Mb. RAM
- | 80 Mb. Seagate IDE HD
- | 3.5 & 5.25" floppies
- | Video7 VGA
- |
- |I tried installing 386BSD (0.1) from the "Tiny BSD" install
- |diskette using the install script. I'm installing
- |from the 3-1/2" 1.44Mb drive, onto the 80Mb Seagate IDE
- |drive [which is the only HD in the machine].
- |
- |The TinyBSD floppy boots perfectly, although is doesn't
- |list the name of my HD, as the install notes suggest it
- |should (the install notes suggest checking the cabling, but
- |everything else recognizes the drive). Anyway, I proceed
- |to install, and everything is apparently copied properly
- |(I can hear the HD writing as the install script reports
- |its actions). However, upon getting the
- |prompt "Press enter to boot from the HD," I hit enter,
- |and after the floppy drives are checked, I'm left with
- |a frozen machine with the A: (3.5") drive light on, even
- |though the drive is empty.
- |
- |I've tried using FDISK to have a DOS and BSD partition,
- |as well as letting the install script overwrite the whole
- |drive. I noticed that after booting the TinyBSD floppy,
- |one can use the command "shutdown -todos" to restart and
- |boot from a DOS partition. Upon doing this [attempts to
- |troubleshoot], the hard disk continually tries to initialize
- |itself, and gets caught in a nasty, violent thrashing loop.
- |
- I've got similar problems. I couldn't get install to work (see previous
- posting) so I installed everything by hand. When I rebooted I had the
- same result, a: drive light on and a hang. Rebooting from floppy was ok
- and everthying on my two partitions is still there. It just won't boot
- from the hard disk.
-
- I tried to fdisk my drive but that doesn't work either now. My hard disk
- seems to be totally trashed. Using edpart it seems to think that I have
- 1023 cyls, 255 heads and 0 sectors!! Using diskedit gives the same
- results. My bios settings are fine.
-
- Are these parameters stored on the disk somewhere and have they been
- overwritten?? Anyone got any ideas?
-
- The drive is a seagate st1144a IDE.
-
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