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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!noc.near.net!news.Brown.EDU!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!tfs.com!tfs.com!julian From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Subject: Re: [386BSD] EISA 486/33 with Adaptec 1742A - The story ... Message-ID: <1992Sep28.192418.21587@tfs.com> Keywords: EISA 1742A Organization: TRW Financial Systems References: <1992Sep28.110340.24460@autelca.ascom.ch> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 19:24:18 GMT Lines: 90 OK, 'horses-mouth time" 8-) In article <1992Sep28.110340.24460@autelca.ascom.ch> nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) writes: >I am "using" 386BSD since some weeks. >I have a standard 486/25 Mhz ISA system with the Adaptec 1542B at work (is >working well) and a 486/33 Mhz EISA system with Adaptec 1742A (in 1542B mode) >at home (has some troubles getting started). > >I am using the new scsi-drivers from Julian Elischer (thanks to you >for your work, Julian). Well we're still pulling bugs out as you see.! >This is what I have accomplished so far (all real work like compiling the kernel >sources, creating new boot floppies, etc. was done on the ISA 1542B system): > >I build a new kernel with the new scsi-drivers. >I created new dist.fs and fixit.fs floppies. >This all works on the ISA system with 1542B. >After booting the new kernel on my EISA system, my harddrive and even the >Archive 150 MB SCSI streamer are detected by 386BSD, now. >Then I switched to the new boot-blocks (with use of BIOS), again from Julian >(thanks again). Now I could boot from the harddisk but it overwrote my DOS >partition table. It seems to me that I can't have a MS-DOS partition >with the new boot-blocks. > I do it all the time, are they the newest set (about a week old now)? do you have a 386bsd partition ready for them to use? It sounds as if they are being installed at location 0 on the disk when they should be at the front of the BSD part of the disk. >If I somehow install 386BSD (EISA system) on my harddisk and I boot from the >floppy I can use both, the harddisk and the streamer. Although, after a while >the system hangs with "aha0: timed out" and I have to reboot. At least, Yes, it appears there is a bug in the 1740 under 1542 mode. never fear, I have started on the 1740 extended mode driver. I hope to have a working one by next weekend. >I can use my harddisk now. >But, I want to boot from the harddisk, finally. > As I say, you should be able to. It's being installed wrongly some-how. >I will take the disk which is now connected to the ISA 1542B system >home and try to use it. If it boots at home, I will take the disk >I have at home now and install the system on the ISA 1542B system. >Then I can use this disk with my EISA 1742A system. > >But, that is not a real "solution" to my problem. I can imagine >getting problems if I try to build new kernels, etc. at home. > >Now, is there anybody who is running 386BSD (i.e. installed it >successfully) on an EISA system like mine, i.e. with SCSI controller ? I am running EISA with a bustek 742a controller. (the driver was posted yesterday (or was it Saturday?) > >Norbert Bladt. > >BTW: I tried both versions of the disktab entry for my drive. >One with geometry translation and one without. No difference. >I am using the Fujitsu 2624SA drive which has more sectors per track >on the outer cylinders than on the inner ones. Although, the >"SCSI sense" reports: 64 sectors/track, 11 heads, 512 bytes/sector >and 1429 cylinders ! I guess this means, that the drive is doing >translation somehow ! Do the 386BSD drivers have to care about this ? The drive reports back, #cylinders, total capacity and # heads. >From this I synthesise the number of sectors per track sort of an "Average" value. >-- >Norbert Bladt, Ascom Autelca AG, Worbstr. 201, CH-3073 Guemligen, Switzerland >Phone: +41 31 999 65 52 FAX: +41 31 999 65 44 >Mail: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt +----------------------------------+ ______ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / On assignment | / \ julian@tfs.com +------>x USA \ in a very strange | ( OZ ) 2118 Milvia st. Berkeley CA. \___ ___ | country ! +- X_.---._/ USA+(510) 704-3137(wk) \_/ \\ v