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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uop!pacbell.com!well!miwok!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!se From: se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't mount a 4G scsi hd with NCR Date: 13 Sep 1995 13:22:29 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 59 Message-ID: <436lul$4b@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <434et2$ji2@news.hk.linkage.net> <433r7f$s7m@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> <436en4$f9@news.hk.linkage.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sysiphos.mi.uni-koeln.de In article <436en4$f9@news.hk.linkage.net>, jvong@HK.LinkAGE.NET (Jeffrey Vong) writes: |> I am using freebsd 2.0.5R . The bios of ncr is ncrpci04.3.06.00 |> |> The 4G hard disk is Quantum XP34301 Oh, yes. A Quantum Grand-Prix ... Sorry, but there is a one line patch required to make that drive work. The patch didn't make it into 2.0.5, but has been in every SNAP since, and will be in FreeBSD-2.1, of course. You ought to be able to install your system using the floppies found at: ftp://FreeBSD.Org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-950726-SNAP/floppies/boot.flp ftp://FreeBSD.Org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-950726-SNAP/floppies/root.flp Guess they will allow you to install the rest of the system from the 2.0.5R CD, though I never actually tried it ... Then apply the following patch to the file '/sys/pci/ncr.c' to get a 2.0.5R kernel source tree that supports the Grand-Prix ... Index: ncr.c =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/sys/pci/ncr.c,v retrieving revision 1.37 retrieving revision 1.39 diff -C2 -r1.37 -r1.39 *** 1.37 1995/05/30 08:13:07 --- 1.39 1995/07/07 12:30:39 *************** *** 6522,6529 **** --- 6549,6557 ---- static struct table_entry device_tab[] = { + {"", "", "", QUIRK_NOMSG}, {"SONY", "SDT-5000", "3.17", QUIRK_NOMSG}, {"WangDAT", "Model 2600", "01.7", QUIRK_NOMSG}, {"WangDAT", "Model 3200", "02.2", QUIRK_NOMSG}, {"WangDAT", "Model 1300", "02.4", QUIRK_NOMSG}, {"", "", "", 0} /* catch all: must be last entry. */ }; Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/staff/esser/esser.html <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>