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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA21 ; Wed, 27 Jan 93 13:10:35 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!edcastle!hwcs!rbk 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 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?