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From: meystrik@cs.utk.edu (Charles Meystrik)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Question regarding master/slave IDE configuration
Date: 2 Dec 1993 09:04:30 -0500
Organization: CS Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Keywords: gateway IDE rebooting disks installation

Hey 386bsd folks,


I am a new person to world of 386bsd and am very excited about getting my system going.
There are a great number of people who are waiting to see if I succeed  and are equally
excited about the potential of this system.  I have run into a few problems and have 
run out of steam trying to solve them myself so I am turning to the experts.

My system is a gateway 2000 486SX/25 (a bit shy of my Sparc10 but hey) with 4M of ram
and 2 IDE disk drives ((Master == Western Digital Caviar 2120) && (Slave == Segate 
st3550a)).

The first problem I have is that the system does not recognize the slave disk
at boot time.  When I am in DOS everything seems fine, I am able to fdisk both disks, 
which seems to tell me it is a problem with 386bsd and not the hardware configuration.
Any ideas on this?

Second, I have installed the OS/2 boot manager on a 1M partition in on the master disk
and allocated 2 other partitions, one for dos (to keep the wife happy) and the other for
386bsd.  The configuration and setup of the OS/2 boot manager, albiet a bit cumbersom 
to install initially, does recognize both the other bootable partitions.  When I select
to boot into DOS (at gun point) it works fine, however, when you select 386bsd the 
system just hangs.  So it seems that bsd want its bootable partition to be the active
parition or it won't work, is this true?  Is there a solution to this problem?  I 
would really like to have this setup (for my sake, she's a brut).

Thirdly, When I type in reboot/shutdown to reboot the system it just hangs and never
comes back, have to reset the box.  Halt works fine.  Also, maybe related, if there is
a corrupt file system at boot time and fsck has to do some work on it the system hangs.
These seem like they could have patches associated that I don't know about, but.  Maybe
it is just a gatewayism.

Any help to these problems would be greatly appreciated.  I would prefer email since 
y'all probably have already dealt with these trivial matters long ago.

Thanks a bunch in advance,
-Chris



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