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Path: sserve!manuel!coombs!greg
From: greg@coombs.anu.edu.au (Greg Price)
Subject: 386BSD-0.1 Disk Controllers - Help Needed
Message-ID: <greg.712338443@coombs>
Keywords: 386BSD
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Sender: news@newshost.anu.edu.au
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:47:23 GMT


Hi there...I have just been playing around with 0.1 and have the following
problem:

All works fine when I use only one drive, but when I try to boot with a 
kernel supporting 2 drives I get a hang after the "npx0 at 0xf0 ...." message
(I don't see "changing root to fd0a" or anything else). I am trying the 
kernel supporting 2 drives from f.ms.uky.edu (unofficial). I hope I'm doing
the correct thing to test it...I loaded the mini system onto the 1st HDD
then read the new 2 drive kernel from the floppy and copied it on top of
/386bsd. I am in this situation as I don't have enough disk space to load
the source until I get the second drive going. System config as follows:

386DX
WA6-V MFM HDD/FDD Controller with Miniscribe 6085 connected
CI-1010 Rev A Ver 1.12 IDE Controller with 200Meg Connor connected

I had to use the CI-1010 controller as it's one of the few the allows 
IDE drives to coexist with MFM. It all works fine under DOS. The IDE
is always (and according to the CI-1010 docs) has to be the second drive.
Hope some one out there can help, or has had experience with this.

Thanks,
Greg

(greg@coombs.anu.edu.au)

ps. Good work Bill, Lynne, and faithful followers