home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!yale.edu!yale!gumby!destroyer!ncar!ico!dougp
- From: dougp@ico.isc.com (Doug Pintar)
- Subject: Re: Primary SCSI, secondary athd on ISC Unix 3.0 possible?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.203529.1774@ico.isc.com>
- Sender: uucp@ncar.ucar.edu (UNIX-to-UNIX Copy)
- Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Boulder CO
- References: <1992Aug21.180336.6922@grebyn.com> <BtGpvF.9tv@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> <1992Aug25.235519.19024@slammer.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 20:35:29 GMT
- Lines: 21
-
- In article <1992Aug25.235519.19024@slammer.UUCP> brad@slammer.UUCP (Brad Isley) writes:
- >
- >In the 2.2.1 manuals it says you can do this by telling your computer's
- >CMOS that there are no hard drives installed. Then it WILL boot from the
- >Adaptec controller. After that, ISC will know how to access your ST-506
- >drives without using the CMOS stuff. BTW: I never tried this - I dunno
- >what 3.0 says, but I imagine this would be the same.
- >
- The problem with this is that the AT-compatible controller module then has
- absolutely no idea as to the geometry of the drives. This makes it rough
- to try to find the VTOC (in the Unix FDISK partition) that tells it the
- real geometry. It's this chicken-and-egg thing that makes it rough to
- do a secondary AT-compatible controller. There are supposed to be IOCTL
- calls to the HPDD to stuff its tables with a known physical and logical
- geometry, but I could never get those to work under 2.2. Never tried it
- under 3.0. If you can write a little program (or find one) to set the
- drive geometry before you try to use the disk (again, a chicken-and-egg
- as you have to open the drive, which tries to read the VTOC, before you
- can issue the IOCTL to tell it the real geometry) you might be able to
- make this configuration work. Nasty, though.
- DLP
-