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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!sunic!seunet!dynas!micke From: micke@dynas.se (Mikael Hybsch) Subject: 386BSD: Problem booting from a Seagate ST1239 (IDE) Message-ID: <1992Sep2.094151.22740@dynas.se> Keywords: boot,386bsd Sender: news@dynas.se (News Administrator) Organization: DynaSoft, Dynamic Software AB Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 09:41:51 GMT Lines: 24 I have some problems trying to boot a Seagate ST1239 (200Mb 1272*9*36). When I try to boot from the harddisk I get various read errors in the boot code. Each time I boot it complains about the same sectors but randomly chooses the error code. (Different errors for the same sector each time I reboot) The status register always has the value 59<seekdone,drq,err>. Finally the machine resets itself. When I boot from a floppy, I can disklabel, newfs and mount the harddisk without any problems. If I disklabel using fixit.fs.debug from agate:unsupported/newbootables/cgd it boots OK, so I guess I have a workaround, but I would like to see it boot without all the debug info. I've used a ST3144 (130Mb) before without any problems. (Other info: 80386-40, 8MB, Hercules, 1.44 floppy, AMI bios) Any help is appreciated. -- Mikael Hybsch, DynaSoft AB micke@dynas.se Liljeholmsv. 10 Voice: +46-8-726 85 60 117 61 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Fax: +46-8-18 11 45