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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!uunet.ca!promis.com!modtor.uucp!modtor.emp.promis.com!pz From: pz@modtor.uucp (Peter Ziobrzynski) Subject: Re: SCSI Drive problems with NetBSD 0.9 Message-ID: <pz.749782698@modtor.emp.promis.com> Organization: Modular References: <crt.749752807@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1993 00:58:18 GMT Lines: 54 crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu (Rob Shady) writes: >I recently decided to grab some SCSI stuff for my BSD box, to start with >I wanted to setup a 200 MB partition for files/news/etc. I purchased >the Adaptec 1542C controller card, and a SCSI drive. I tested the drive >under DOS to make sure it works, and it works just dandy.. I threw the >drive on my system (supposedly configured for SCSI & Adaptec 1542 cards) >and it doesn't work. Ie: When I boot, the kernel finds the drive, >identifies it properly, etc. But when I try to run Disklabel on the >drive, it tells me that the device is not configured?!?!? > -- Rob I had exactly the same behavior on both NetBSD and FreeBSD and AHA 1540B. To complete installation with FreeBSD I tared all base09.* to floppies and used them instead - what a pain. I checked the kernel configuration after installation and made sure that the SCSI is configured. In sys/i386/conf/GENERICAH: controller ahb0 at isa? bio irq 11 vector ahbintr controller aha0 at isa? port "IO_AHA0" bio irq 11 drq 5 vector ahaintr controller scbus0 device sd0 device sd1 device sd2 device sd3 device st0 device st1 device cd0 device cd1 I rebuilt the kernel and still access to nodes of SCSI devices gave message: device not configured I remade all SCSI devices with /dev/MAKEDEV to make sure the device numbers are ok. Still no go. The only thing left to play was the SCSI ID of the tape drive - I had no energy to switch it from 2 to 0,1,3,4,5,6. I think that Free/Net/BSD teams do no use SCSI tapes. sigh... For me it was a weekend experiment to check the status of the 386BSD projects. To me it is still early alpha. I scrapped all BSDs from my PC and returned happily to my good old SVR4. -- Peter Ziobrzynski, pz@modtor.emp.promis.com, Toronto, Ont. Canada