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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!convex!news.duke.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!admii!cbda8.apgea.army.mil.!scsmith From: scsmith@apgea.army.mil (Smith S. Charles <scsmith>) Subject: help rsd0? Devices not configure on install. Message-ID: <1994May27.175350.24554@apgea.army.mil> Sender: Smith S. Charles <scsmith@apgea.army.mil> Organization: APG-Edgewood, MD, USA Date: Fri, 27 May 94 17:53:50 GMT Lines: 48 Hello, I just got a 486DX2-66 box to run NetBSD. The mother board has three 32 VL-Bus slots and 4 other ISA slots. I got 16M of memory and 256k cache. It also has AMI Bios. I have a Trident 9600 video card in one of the VL-Bus slots. I have an i/o card with two serial, one parallel, and a game port in an ISA slot, and an Adaptec AHA-1542CF SCSI Host Adapter in an ISA slot. I have a 1.44 3.5 and 1.22 5.25 floppy drives, and a Seagate ST3655N 520MD Hard Disk connected to the Adaptec. All of this works under DOS and WINDOWS, but when I got to install NetBSD-09, I get "Device not configured errors" on my sd0 devices. When it is going through listing all the devices it can find, It finds the keyboard(pc0), the com ports(com0 and com1), parallel ports(lpa0), the floppies(fd0, fd1), the math coprocessor (npx0), and the Host Adapter(aha?), but it doesn't say anything about sd0. I have the 386bsd-faq and the INSTALLATION NOTES. I have used them to configure the system. [note: my experience in Un*x system administration not PC hardware.] When the box came they had the printer port disabled and the irq set to 5. I enabled it and set the irq to 7. However NetBSD sees it as lpa0 which is suppose to be an interruptless parallel port. I checked the com ports and there are port=0x3f8 irq=4, and port=0x2f8 port=3. I changed the scsi device id of the seagate to 0 and the adapter to 7; they were 3 and 0. One more note when it boots the BOIS does not see the hard disk, but it boots from the hard disk just fine. Also the Host Control is obviously doing some disk geometry translations because every where I look it tells me I have 64 heads and 32 sectors per track. The 386bsd-faq says that disk geometry translation is O.K. iff the translation does not change. So far it has not been a problem, but I can't boot either. How do I find out if it is going to be a problem. Please send e-mail to "scsmith@apgea.army.mil", I will post a summary if there is any interest. chuck