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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!trane.uninett.no!news.eunet.no!nuug!dkuug!dde!kim From: kim@dde.dk (Kim Andersen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: SCSI Drive problems with NetBSD 0.9 Message-ID: <1993Oct5.040912.10324@dde.dk> Date: 5 Oct 93 04:09:12 GMT References: <crt.749752807@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <pz.749782698@modtor.emp.promis.com> Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S Lines: 58 pz@modtor.uucp (Peter Ziobrzynski) writes: >crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu (Rob Shady) writes: >>I recently decided to grab some SCSI stuff for my BSD box, to start with >>I wanted to setup a 200 MB partition for files/news/etc. I purchased >>the Adaptec 1542C controller card, and a SCSI drive. I tested the drive >>under DOS to make sure it works, and it works just dandy.. I threw the >>drive on my system (supposedly configured for SCSI & Adaptec 1542 cards) >>and it doesn't work. Ie: When I boot, the kernel finds the drive, >>identifies it properly, etc. But when I try to run Disklabel on the >>drive, it tells me that the device is not configured?!?!? Which device are you trying to access ? What is the SCSI ID of your disk ? >I had exactly the same behavior on both NetBSD and FreeBSD and AHA 1540B. >To complete installation with FreeBSD I tared all base09.* to floppies >and used them instead - what a pain. [lines showing config deleted] >I rebuilt the kernel and still access to nodes of SCSI devices gave message: > device not configured >I remade all SCSI devices with /dev/MAKEDEV to make sure the device numbers >are ok. Still no go. The only thing left to play was the SCSI ID of the tape >drive - I had no energy to switch it from 2 to 0,1,3,4,5,6. >I think that Free/Net/BSD teams do no use SCSI tapes. >sigh... Double sigh !! 386BSD-0.1(pk0.2.4)/FreeBSD ??/NetBSD all use julians SCSI driver, which drives SCSI disk's, SCSI tapes, SCSI cdrom's, SCSI cd-changers ..... I have used SCSI disk's and tapes on 386BSD-0.1 from the day it was released with no problems !! You surely must be doing something wrong !!! >For me it was a weekend experiment to check the status of the 386BSD projects. >To me it is still early alpha. Might be, but not because of the SCSI driver !!!! >I scrapped all BSDs from my PC and returned happily to my good old SVR4. Well, thats your opinion. ( Sorry if I sound a bit angry, but you simply haven't done your homework !!) regards kim -- -- Kim Andersen @ Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark. E-mail: kim@dde.dk or ...!uunet!mcsun!dkuug!dde!kim