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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: disk type of wd0 not found.
Date: 20 Jan 1994 05:30:08 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Message-ID: <2hl4t0$3uq@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
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mooo!
i'm trying to install netbsd 0.9 on a new [really ooold]
386sx machine i just grabbed today [ncr 16mhz 386sx].
however, when trying to install, the kernel is unable
to find out anything about the fixed disk, printing something
to the effect at probe time of:
wd0: {unknown type}
or something like that.
this, of course, makes it rather difficult to install the
os on the disk [any attempt generates wdc0: wait too long, resetting]
the bios for the machine has it as type 40, which is a 40mb
disk.
of course, this is an 80mb mfm disk, and i have no idea why
it's being entered as a 40mb'er....
any thoughts?
toodlepip!
marc 'em.
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