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From: mbirgmei@email.tuwien.ac.at (Martin BIRGMEIER)
Subject: Please help me with 'as: unknown mailbox paddr 0x0'...
Message-ID: <1992Nov16.120809.2274@email.tuwien.ac.at>
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 12:08:09 GMT
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Sorry if this is a FAQ (but anyway I did not find it in any of the
copies of FAQs I have):
I have the following setup:
ISA-486C motherboard w/ 8M RAM (some Taiwanese vendor I don't know
exactly, the # is shown on the board)
Adaptec 1540B/42B SCSI controller
340M Maxtor disk (LXT-340S 6.20, from the boot info)
3C503 Ethernet controller
When I try booting from the dist.fs disk, if I ever succeed getting
across any as-related messages (see below), the try to run 'install',
various combinations of SCSI-related errors occur. Below is a (hand-typed)
excerpt from one such run:
# install
as0d: controller error 0x1a reading fsbn 1
scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
as: unknown mailbox paddr 0x0
Do you want to install 386BSD on the ENTIRE drive? (y/n) y
You realize this means you lose the old contents of this drive.
Do you *still* want to install 386BSD on the entire drive? (y/n)y
High level formatting of 386BSD storage:
/dev/ras0a: 653312 sectors in 319 cylinders of 64 tracks, 32 sectors
334.5MB in 20 cyl groups (16 c/g, 16.78MB/g, 3840 i/g)
as: unknown mailbox paddr 0x0
as: unknown mailbox paddr 0x0
as0a: funny mailbox message 0x2
writing fsbn 192-207
scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
asabort 0
super-block backupas: stray intr 0xd00
s (for fsck -b #) at:write error: 224
wtfs: Undefined error: 0
Could not format filesystem. Installation failed.
#
Most often I don't even get that far, the system hangs accessing the SCSI
controller, even during booting from dist.fs. Also, before any 'asabort 0'
message appears, a long delay occurs. Most of the messages are of the
'unknown mailbox paddr 0x0' variant.
I vaguely remember that there once was a discussion about 'paddr' on
comp.unix.bsd, but at that time I didn't have the chance trying to
install 386BSD yet :-). So, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Martin Birgmeier
Dept. of Communications Engineering
Technical University of Vienna, Austria mbirgmei@email.tuwien.ac.at