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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: 386BSD Installation
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In article <1993Jan31.090002.2601@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> ece_0051@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu (Anand Kuratti) writes:
>I have been trying to get 386BSD to boot on an AT&T WGS 6386/E Model S
>with limited success. The system is configured as follows:
>
>1. WD7000 SCSI controller
>
> a. IRQ: 15
> b. DMA channel: 6
> c. I/O address: 0x350
> d. BIOS ROM address: 0xCE000
> e. connected to:
>
> 3.5 1.44 MB floppy drive
> HP 600 MB SCSI hard drive (SCSI ID 0)
> 120 MB Wangtek tape drive (SCSI ID 3)
[ ... ]
>At this point, the floppy drive drive light goes off and the system hangs
>(rebootable by CTL-ALT-DEL). I have tried the new patch-kist dist.fs, but
>wd0 is not recognized and the system still hangs at the same point.
This is what happens if the controller is fund by the wd driver but isn't
a "wd" controller. the distinction between a wd controller and a "wd"
controller being that a "wd" controller is one recognized by more than the
probe routine in wd.c, and a wd controller is one manufactured by Western
Digital.
The WD7000 is not supported. The fact that it comes up in the inventory
is precisely what has kept me from releasing a driver for the thing under
Julian's SCSI system. Basically, the thing *shouldn't* be recognized by
the wd driver's probe -- I can fix it, but it means IDE drives aren't
recognized either.
This is probably why AT&T provides SVR4.0 SCSI and ESDI bootables on two
sets of disks rather than just a single set of disks: they couldn't fix
it either.
You will have to pick a different controller or wait for someone to solve
the problem; it has me stumped for now, and I'm frantically trying to do
five million things before a March deadline.
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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