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From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: The SCSI Controller saga continues...
Date: 17 Nov 1992 10:01:26 -0600
Organization: Armstrong Lab MIS, Brooks AFB TX
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OK, here goes.
Jim Henrickson and I have managed to get 386bsd to recognize the Ultrastor
24F Hard drive controller in our Gateway machines.
(A cheer rises from the crowd...)
Now for the bad news. Neither of us can boot from it. Here are the symptoms:
1) Power up tests pass, the SCSI search is completed, and the hard drive is
properly identified. The controller is also identified as ID 7, and appears
to be correct.
(Here comes the spooky part)
2) If a floppy is in the disk drive, the system will boot, and identify the
hard disk controller as IRQ 14, 0x1f0. Isn't that the combo for the IDE drive?
The hard drive is then mountable, fillable, fsckable, etc01.*-able, etc. Every
check seems to work, all systems go. But only as wd0*. Remember, this is an
SCSI drive.
3) If there is no floppy in the disk drive, the system tries (as you would
expect) to boot off the floppy. Failing that it accesses the hard drive.
The system dies. Locks up. Freaks. Fails. C-A-Detete has no effect. One
time, the 'RESET' button didn't even work.
(A frightened moan rises from the crowd...)
Here comes the question.
Huh?
I have tried every boot block set I can find, including the fs{boot}fs, just
for grins. None of them seem to help. What I think I need is an {as,sd}boot
set that thinks it's an IDE drive (or a wdboot that works like a SCSI)?
Any good suggestions at this point would be really appreciated.
Failing that, is there a way to boot from floppy and set the root device to
the hard drive? There sits, in the back of my mind, a nagging thought that
says 'Yes, you could do it on the Cromemco'. Surely, 386bsd is better than
Cromix :-).
TSgt Dave Burgess