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- From: adam@micromuse.co.uk (Adam Kerrison)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: 386BSD - Success & Failure !
- Message-ID: <Bu1wzC.5uI@micromuse.co.uk>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 11:23:35 GMT
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- Hello BSD world,
-
- I have had some success with 386BSD - My machine is:
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- 33MHz 386 with 128K cache and 8Mb of memory,
- Seagate ST1239a 211Mb drive (drive 0)
- ST152 44Mb drive (drive 1)
- IDE controller
- Orchid Prodesigner I (ET3000 based card)
-
- When I first tried to install the system (following the instructions from
- lurch@ee.latrobe.edu.au) I encounter problems when creating the filesystems -
- the newfs command would just hang the machine.
-
- Luckily, I work where we have other hardware, so I built a machine consisting of
- another 33Mhz 386 board, my ST1239a drive, IDE controller and an OAK VGA card. This
- successfully installed and is now quite happy. I also installed X386 but it didn't
- seem to like the OAK card so I took my drive back home and tryed to boot of it.
-
- On power up, my machine checks the hardware successfully and beeps (as usual). The
- hard disk light then flashes very briefly and the machine trys to access the A: drive
- as if booting - the machine is then hung up.
-
- My question is Do I have a broken IDE controller at home ? It has worked fine for the
- past 9 months with DOS on the larger disk. Does BSD have a bug in its IDE interface ?
- Is my IDE card incompatible with BSD ?
-
- Any answers would be helpful ...
-
- Thanks in advance
-
- Adam
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