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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!adagio.panasonic.com!nntp-server.caltech.edu!hagar!lindheim From: lindheim@hagar.ccsf (Jan Lindheim) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Western Digital disk controller Date: 30 Sep 1992 17:51:50 GMT Organization: CCSF Caltech, Pasadena, CA Lines: 20 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1acpfmINNn2n@gap.caltech.edu> Reply-To: lindheim@hagar.ccsf NNTP-Posting-Host: hagar.ccsf.caltech.edu Keywords: 386BSD,disk controller,install We are trying to install BSD386 on a 16Mhz 386SX clone system, using the Chips & Technologies Neat-SX chip set. We are able to bring up the micro-kernel if we reconfigure the setup parameters of the system to exclude the hard disk. So, we do get to the Unix prompt as long as no hard disks are configured. The hard disk controller chip is a Western Digital WD 37C65C-PL, and the VGA chips are Oak Technologies OTI 066adv-66, OTI 037C, and the VGA roms are dated 1988 and 1991. We are wondering what to do next, such as buying a new disk controller since the BSD boot process hangs just after switching to fd0. --- Jan Lindheim Internet: lindheim@ccsf.caltech.edu M.S. 158-79 Caltech UUCP: lindheim%ccsf.caltech.edu@uunet.uu.net Pasadena, CA 91125 USA (818) 356-3926