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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!uknet!axion!micromuse!adam@micromuse.co.uk From: adam@micromuse.co.uk (Adam Kerrison) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: 386BSD - Success & Failure ! Message-ID: <Bu1wzC.5uI@micromuse.co.uk> Date: 4 Sep 92 11:23:35 GMT Sender: news@micromuse.co.uk Reply-To: adam@micromuse.co.uk Organization: MicroMuse Ltd, London, UK Lines: 42 Nntp-Posting-Host: zaphod Hello BSD world, I have had some success with 386BSD - My machine is: 33MHz 386 with 128K cache and 8Mb of memory, Seagate ST1239a 211Mb drive (drive 0) ST152 44Mb drive (drive 1) IDE controller Orchid Prodesigner I (ET3000 based card) When I first tried to install the system (following the instructions from lurch@ee.latrobe.edu.au) I encounter problems when creating the filesystems - the newfs command would just hang the machine. Luckily, I work where we have other hardware, so I built a machine consisting of another 33Mhz 386 board, my ST1239a drive, IDE controller and an OAK VGA card. This successfully installed and is now quite happy. I also installed X386 but it didn't seem to like the OAK card so I took my drive back home and tryed to boot of it. On power up, my machine checks the hardware successfully and beeps (as usual). The hard disk light then flashes very briefly and the machine trys to access the A: drive as if booting - the machine is then hung up. My question is Do I have a broken IDE controller at home ? It has worked fine for the past 9 months with DOS on the larger disk. Does BSD have a bug in its IDE interface ? Is my IDE card incompatible with BSD ? Any answers would be helpful ... Thanks in advance Adam =========================================================================== Adam Kerrison | Phone : +44 71 352 7774 Technical Support | Fax : +44 71 351 7834 MicroMuse Ltd | E-mail: adam@micromuse.co.uk London SW10 0RN | =========================================================================== "When you kill a man, you're a murderer. Kill many, and you're a conqueror. Kill them all, you're a god !" - Think about it ===========================================================================