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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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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