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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!gatech!bloom-beacon!eru.mt.luth.se!lunic!sunic!ugle.unit.no!nuug!nntp.uio.no!bootes.sds.no!toreh From: toreh@bootes.sds.no (Tore Haraldsen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: 386BSD & AHA1542B & CDC94171-9 Disk problem Message-ID: <1992Jul19.121003.27453@ulrik.uio.no> Date: 19 Jul 92 12:10:03 GMT Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (Mr News) Reply-To: tha@ulrik.uio.no Organization: Statens Datasentral A/S, SDS, Norway Lines: 58 Nntp-Posting-Host: 192.68.77.217 First I must tell you I installed 386BSD 0.1 on a noname 50MHz 486 clone with Quantum 240Mb IDE disk and T4000 graphics card and 3C503 ethernet card with no problems whatsoever!! Real smooth! So I decided to try it on my home machine too, but that was not easy... My home machine is a Nokia/ICL 386 Deskside with original Intel boards, 8Mb memory, 256Kb cache, Paradise VGA 4 comports & parallel printer port. AHA1542B CDC9471-9 312MB disk @scsi-id 0 Archive A2150S streamer @scsi-id 2 Two floppy drives (0 = 1.44, 1 = 1.2) 3C503 ethernet card (the old 8-bit type) This system have been running DOS5.0, SCO ODT1.0, 1.1 and then 2.0beta with no problems whatsoever, though SCO stuff would never see COM3-4. To 386BSD: When booting the Tiny disk, I get scsi errors and when rebooting back to dos (to run kermit and write to you), I loose COM1-2. The 386BSD boot reports like this: <banner...> pc0<color> at 0x60 irq 1 on isa com1 at 0x3f8 irq 4 on isa com2 at 0x2f8 irq 3 on isa fd0 at 0x3f0 irq 6 drq 2 on isa (I left out the 1.44&1.2 info) as0 at 0x330 irq 11 drq 5 on isa ec0 at 0x250 irq 9 iomem 0xd8000 changing root device to fd0a as0b: controller error 0x16 reading fsbn 0 scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 as0b: controller error 0x16 reading fsbn 0 scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 after which it teells me I got no swap and proceeds all the way to the prompt. I can navigate the floppy disk, but I cannot touch the SCSI disk without getting those two error messages (the sense prints 30 zeroes). Since I had backups of everything (thank u, streamer!), I tore down the whole disk, ran scsi low level formatting, and tried to boot Tiny with the virgin disk. No deal, same error. I then reinstalled DOS-5.0 in a 120MB partition, restored the contents and checked that everything was ok. Booted Tiny. No deal, same error. I am out of ideas now. Maybe my CDC SCSI disk have strange habits, I don't know. Maybe the sky will fall in over me, I don't know. Anybody got some hints, what can I do? -- Tore Haraldsen