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From: Andrew G <andrew@whanganui.ac.nz>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Help - Install / config problem
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:10:01 +1200
Organization: Wanganui Polytechnic
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This is the first time I have installed NetBSD (or any unix type
operating system) on a machine.  I have a running system working very
well and need to know more about how to set up and config the OS in case
we need to replace fixed disks etc...

I have a Digital Prioris LX5120 with an ADAPTEC AIC7850 (PCI) SCSI
Adappter and am trying to install NetBSD 1.1on the Seagate 31200N Hard
Drive.  

When the system boots and reports all of the hardware it finds the
following appears about the PCI (SCSI) adapter:

root device eisa not configured
pci0 (root): configuration mode 2
pci0 bus 0 device 0: unknown vendor/product: 0x8086/0x04a3 (class:
bridge, subclass: host, revision: 0x11) not configured
pci0 bus 0 device 1: unknown vendor/product: 0x904/0x5078 (class: mass
storage, subclass: SCSI, revision: 0x00) not configured
pci0 bus 0 device 2: unknown vendor/product: 0x8086/0x0482 (class:
prehistoric, subclass: miscellaneous, revision: 0x03) not configured

This obviously has something to do with the fact that the install
program cannot create a file system on the SCSI hard disk.

The SCSI ID's are set up as follows:

PCI Adapter: 				ID: 7
Toshiba CD-Rom				ID  6
Seagate ST31200N (Hard Disk)		ID: 0

From DOS the hard disk is accessable (fdisk/format works fine)

Do the SCSI ID's need to be set up in a certain way??

Thanks in advance for help re this.

can responses be CC'd to my E-mail address plse - 

andrew@whanganui.ac.nz