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From: rolfe@rosebud.ldp.com (Rolfe Tessem)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Problem bootstrapping with 1742 & SCSI
Date: 28 Mar 1993 23:14:21 GMT
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I thought I'd bring up a new machine this weekend with 386bsd, but
no joy. I tried both the dist.fs in /bootable and the one that
contain the new patches with the same result.

Machine is a 486/33 AMI motherboard with OPTI chipset, 16 meg, and
Fujitsu 520 meg SCSI drive.

The symptoms:

After correctly probing the display, serial ports, and WD ethernet
card, the display proceeds as follows...

as0 at 0x330 irq 11 drq5 on isa
changing root device to fd0a

as0b: controller error 0x12 reading fsbn 0
scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0

...and these two lines are repeated again.

Clearly, it's not seeing the drive, but I believe it to be correctly
configured from a hardware standpoint since MS-DOS and OS/2 both see
it fine. The 1742 is operating in standard mode, of course.

Any helpful hints gratfully accepted; I understand that there are
SCSI drivers on agate.berkeley.edu, but if I understand the
INSTALL.NOTES correctly, the tinybsd floppy should bootstrap to
a SCSI system as long as it uses an Adaptec interface.

Thanks,

Rolfe

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