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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!nigel.msen.com!math.fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!hase From: hase@cs.tu-berlin.de (Hartmut Semken) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: #386BSD: Trouble with RLL drive Date: 30 Mar 1993 16:23:11 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 33 Message-ID: <1p9s5f$ig1@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: trillian.cs.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello all! I am having tons of trouble installing 386BSD on my hard disk. I already tried 386BSD with an 100 MB IDE drive. That did work fine. But 100 MB is not a lot for 386BSD, as You know. Now I have an Adaptec RLL controllern and a Maxtor disk drive with 240 MB. I did not find a way to use both controllers simultaniously, so I tried wth the RLL only. If I install 386BSD o the entire drive, and I reboot, I get a working system. All is fine. If I try to install a DOS partition and install 386BSD on the remaining space - worked with the IDE drive - I get a cvm_faultR (or something the like) and the machine reboots immediately. This happens whether I run the drive in RLL (1224 cylinders, 15 heads, 26 sectors) mode, or let the controlle anslate it to 63 sectors or 17 sectors per track. The error seems to be the same in all cases. What is the problem? How can I solve it? Sadly I need DOS on this box for my *bloved* homework (assembly language for beginners) please mail to hase@netmbx.netmbx.de or hase@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de Thanks a lot! hase