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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!lynx.aba.net.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!crc-news.doc.ca!usenet From: berg.russ@ic.gc.ca (Suzanne Blais) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Adaptec 1522 with NETBSD problem Date: 12 Sep 1996 21:35:03 GMT Organization: The Communications Research Centre Lines: 25 Message-ID: <519vm7$sk9@crc-news.doc.ca> Reply-To: berg.russ@ic.gc.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: 161.187.159.10 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+ Hi I'm a CS student trying to install NETBSD on my home system, I got the diskettes the images are written, Ive created a second partition of about 440 meg for netbsd to use, when I boot from the kcadp11.fs kernel copy floppy everything goes as per the installation doc, I insert the installation floppy still everything is good, the trouble is when you get to the part where it will start to actually copy the files to the netbsd partition, when it tries to access that partition to dump the files It just 'TIMES OUT' twice then tries to copy the next file then it 'TIMES OUT', I notice that there is not even a flash on the drive access LED so I think it's not seeing my AHA1522 controller, but yet it does recognize that my drive is a Micropolis 1598 -15 at boot time (kcadp11.fs then inst11), i'm sure this isn't a difficult problem but I have little to no expierience with this or any type of unix. The specs for my disk geometry as per the Micropolis spec sheet are 1928 cyls 15 heads 71 sectors, when I boot with kcadp11.fs then load inst11.fs it also see's the drive with this geometry except 70 sectors, when I used PFDISK to create and mark the netbsd partition, it displayed my disks geometry as 991 cyls 64 heads 32 sectors, this whole physical/logical thing screws me up, anyways if anyone knows what the problem is I'd appreciate a reply to berg.russ@ic.gc.ca or rjb122@mail.usask.ca Thanks VERY much, -Russ