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- From: micke@dynas.se (Mikael Hybsch)
- Subject: 386BSD: Problem booting from a Seagate ST1239 (IDE)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.094151.22740@dynas.se>
- Keywords: boot,386bsd
- Sender: news@dynas.se (News Administrator)
- Organization: DynaSoft, Dynamic Software AB
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 09:41:51 GMT
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- I have some problems trying to boot a Seagate ST1239 (200Mb 1272*9*36).
- When I try to boot from the harddisk I get various read errors in
- the boot code. Each time I boot it complains about the same sectors
- but randomly chooses the error code.
- (Different errors for the same sector each time I reboot)
- The status register always has the value 59<seekdone,drq,err>.
- Finally the machine resets itself.
-
- When I boot from a floppy, I can disklabel, newfs and mount the harddisk
- without any problems.
-
- If I disklabel using fixit.fs.debug from agate:unsupported/newbootables/cgd
- it boots OK, so I guess I have a workaround, but I would like to see it
- boot without all the debug info.
-
- I've used a ST3144 (130Mb) before without any problems.
-
- (Other info: 80386-40, 8MB, Hercules, 1.44 floppy, AMI bios)
-
- Any help is appreciated.
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- Mikael Hybsch, DynaSoft AB micke@dynas.se
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