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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Ultrastor 24F progress (or lack thereof) Date: 30 Nov 1992 23:05:07 -0600 Organization: Armstrong Lab MIS, Brooks AFB TX Lines: 50 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1ferq3INNah2@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil Hi all, Well I would love to tell all of you about the mountains of stuff I have managed to load onto my 486 with the Ultrastor card. No such luck :-(. I have managed to get it to boot successfully. I used sdboot/bootsd and ran it in ISA mode (which makes it look like an IDE drive). OK so far. I can boot, I can load the basic utilities (with only a few kernel panics) and manage to get my hopes up to the point where I think I may be close this time. HA! First, during the bin01 distribution load, the system will invariably die with a duplicate inode error. From there, it is straight down the chute. Usually at that point, the system will panic; I will reboot and the system will blithely tell me that /386bsd is no longer available would I like to try 386bsd.alt? If I look in the root directory, the first half dozen inodes are whacked, along with about 250 of their kith starting in the 64000 range. This last bunch really has me perplexed. They are ALWAYS breaking. I get the disk cleaned up, FTP the bin software from my local bindist repository, and fsck again and the system has lost its mind again. Fsck's affinity for putting /386bsd* into lost+found is really maddening. If it doesn't touch another program, it will whisk the OS off into the closet, and then complain if I try to get it out. Ah, a new error: 'cpio out of phase - get help'. That really pinpoints it for me. NOT! I know the Ultrastor in this mode is slow, but I can't imagine that it should be completely crippled. If anyone has any suggestions (including 'I will send you a good hard drive controller' since it will take the military supply system a year to get me one otherwise) I would be very happy to hear them. Note that I will consider 'Get a different OS' before I will entertain suggestions to replace any of the hardware. On the other hand, if anyone has suddenly popped back onto the net with a Ultrastore 24F EISA SCSI Hard Disk Controller Driver, I will gladly test it in WHATEVER shape it happens to be in. I have until Friday to get this working, or it becomes a DOS rock again. (dread, fear, loathing) On another tack, has anyone ever heard of a SUMO SCSI controller. They are circa 1988 cards, and are abundantly available in the 386s we use for terminals. If anyone knows which SCSI driver will drive these, I'd appreciate the pointer so I can at least maintain a news feed. Thanks for hanging in there until the end... TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC Armstrong Lab MIS Brooks AFB, TX