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From: rodeen@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Rick Odeen)
Subject: Re: Anyone successful with UltraStor 12F use???
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References: <1993Nov10.171540.18089@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 19:42:31 GMT
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In article <1993Nov10.171540.18089@mksol.dseg.ti.com>,
Bob Myers <bmyers@asd470.dseg.ti.com> wrote:
>I've been trying to install FreeBSD (Gamma, Epsilon, Release, even with
>the kcopy-altwd disk) and have yet to be able to sucessfully get a
>/dev/rwd0e to be created successfully. I'm using the Ultrastor 12f with
>a 345 mb esdi drive that has 18 bad spots. seems that the root partition
>can be created successfully, but there is a major problem with creating
>the usr file structure on my system. During the boot off the hard disk,
>i enter an endless loop that complains about an inconsistancy on this
>partition, that fsck must be run manually, and that an automatic reboot
>will occur (and yet never does).
>
>when i break out of the loop (eventually after hitting ctrl-c a number of
>times), i run fsck manually and get a magic number failure and fsck aborts
>on this partition. I've tried to issue newfs -N, and get a listing of all
>bad sectors on this partition. Even then issuing newfs /dev/rwd0e doesn't
>buy me much -- fsck being run after this comes up with the same error.
>
>
>Has anyone debugged the code for the ESDI driver? Is there someone
>else that has an ultrastor 12f-based system up and running???
>
>I know that there are at least two other potential users that have the same
>hardware (ultrastor 12f, 300+ mb esdi drive for primary boot drive), and also
>are suffering from the same problem.
I'm probably one of those "other two" people and my symptoms are identical.
I've tried all possible combinations of setting with the controller and
placement of FreeBSD on the drive including starting at cyl 0 and 1.
Has anyone used NetBSD with this controller? Is this just a problem with
FreeBSD? I'd swear I used this controller back in the bad ol' days of
386BSD 0.1, but it may have been an Adaptec ESDI controller.
-Rick Odeen (really wanting to run BSD)
--
"MINIX costs $169, but the license allows | Rick Odeen
making two backup copies, so the effective | richard.odeen@umn.edu
price can be under $60." | rodeen@buddha.ncc.umn.edu
- ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) |