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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!hookup!noc.tor.hookup.net!metrics.com!tomh From: tomh@metrics.com (Tom Haapanen) Subject: Quantum Grand Prix 4301S with BSDI? Organization: Software Metrics Inc. Message-ID: <DCBp9q.77J@metrics.com> References: <3umm86$fjf@news.trytel.on.ca> <DC86op.7yu@eclipse.sheridanc.on.ca> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 12:27:26 GMT Lines: 29 Has anyone successfully used a Quantum Grand Prix 4301S with BSDI 2.0? I have successfully installed it, it's recognized by the kernel at boot time, and I can probe the drive with scsicmd, getting the drive parameters. (Mind you, the 2.0 scsicmd doesn't figure out the zone recording, but returns just a very large number of small cylinders). I can the use the disksetup utility to allocated 1.5 GB to /dev/sd3a. However, when I proceed to do a newfs, I'll get the first set of info, and then the light on the drive will go on and stay on. The SCSI driver will eventually report that there's no response after 31, 61, 91, ... seconds. The system is completely locked up at this point, and C-A-D is the only way out. I have tried this both with our usual 1742A and with a 1542CF, with identical results. The latter test was done booting from the install floppies, and thus with a generic kernel. The drive will low-level format fine using Adaptec's utilities. What could possibly cause this? Can BSDI be incompatible with this particular drive geometry? P.S. The install from CD-ROM is a real pain if you have four SCSI hard disks -- there's no /dev/sd4* on the diskette filesystem. Argh! -- [ /tom haapanen -- tomh@metrics.com -- software metrics inc -- waterloo, ont ] [ "trust the programmer" -- preface to ansi c standard ]