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From: jas5@cec1.wustl.edu (John Adam Szofran)
Subject: 40MB IDE goes rumble beep beep on 386bsd install
Message-ID: <1992Jul21.195827.29352@wuecl.wustl.edu>
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Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 19:58:27 GMT
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I have been trying to install 386bsd v0.1 for the past several days on the
following system:

     BSR 386sx, 16MHz, no '387
     Award BIOS v3.03
     4 MB RAM
     ST506 disk controller (I assume)
     Western Digital WD95044-A 40MB IDE disk
        (ns#17:nt#5:nc#977:se#512)

     I plan to devote the entire disk to 386bsd (no other choice).  During
the "High-Level formatting..." section of the automatic install procedure
the hard disk makes a rumble sound and then beeps twice (not the computer,
the hard disk actually beeps).  This sequence continues over and over again
until I have mercy on the disk and do a ^C.  install then prints a failure 
message and the contents of /.profile prints to the console ad infinitum.

     The install procedure puts the following partitions on the disk:
3 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:    72420        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 851)
  b:    10000    72460    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.  852*- 970*)
  c:    82960        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 975)

     I have also tried to manually install using the fixit.fs disk.  Here
is the disktab entry (one of the many) that I have tried:

wd95044a|Western Digital 40MB IDE: \
     :dt=ST506:ty=winchester:se#512:nt#5:ns#17:nc#977: \
     :pa#15895:oa#0:ba#4096:fa#512:ta=4.2BSD: \
     :pb#10030:ob#15895:tb=swap: \
     :pc#83045:oc#0: \
     :pd#83045:od#0: \   <-- As per Chris Demetriou
     :pe#15895:oe#25925:be:4096:fe#512:te=4.2BSD: \
     :pf#40800:of#41820:bf#4096:ff#512:tf=4.2BSD: \
     :pg#56695:og#25925:bg#4096:fg#512:tg=4.2BSD:

     Using the disktab above I can successfully do a 
"disklabel -w -r wd0 wd95044a".  I can also "newfs wd0a" and "newfs wd0b".  
However, if I try to newfs partitions e, f or g, I get the same rumble beep
beep from the hard disk.  (My intention is to use only a, b, and g.)  I have
tried both the original boot images and the newly modified ones created
by Chris Demetriou on 
   agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/newbootables.cgd

Please respond by email (zof@wubcl.wustl.edu) if you have any suggestions.
Thank you.


--
J. Adam Szofran                    Internet: zof@wubcl.wustl.edu
Electrical Engineering Student        Phone: (314) 362-2135