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Xref: sserve comp.periphs.scsi:7027 comp.unix.bsd:5032 Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!david From: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au (David Le Blanc) Subject: Re: [386BSD] doesn't find harddisk: 1542B vs. 1742A (standard mode) ? Message-ID: <david.716432325@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au> Keywords: 386BSD Adaptec 1542B 1742A Sender: news@mel.dit.csiro.au Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.) References: <1992Sep10.063053.11775@autelca.ascom.ch> Date: 14 Sep 92 00:58:45 GMT Lines: 25 nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) writes: >If I select "low-level format" in the menu, the controller scans for drives >and displays SCSI-Id 1 and the name looks like what it should be, i.e. Just a hint, but 386BSD looks for and initialises the driver for unit 0. Make your hard drive unit 0, and try again. A also have a 1542b, and the drive ID is displayed in the bootup spiel showing the device number and the identification string it read from the drive. Lastly, its a fact that there are problems related to SCSI drives with BIOS'es which fake the disk geometry. The AHA1542b does, so I could not boot DOS and install a working BSD on the same drive. >Please help, >Norbert Bladt. -- David Le Blanc : Email: david@mlb.geomechanics.csiro.au : `Sort of a cross between a Jaguar CSIRO Division of Geomechanics, : and a freight train.' the Alien P.O. Box 54 Mt Waverley 3149 : in Alien^3.