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From: simon@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: IDE drive problems - is it a bug?
Date: 2 Dec 1993 17:32:49 GMT
Organization: Univ. of London, Royal Holloway College.
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Message-ID: <2dl8s1$8v7@sun.rhbnc.ac.uk>
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Hi there,
I am having a spot of bother. I decided that 200M wasn't enough,
and finally treated myself to another 250M of harddisc. But after a chunk
of struggling I can't make it happen...
I have 386BSD 0.1 with the 2.4 patchkit installed, on a Western
Digital WDAC2200 IDE drive. The kernel recognizes it as <WDC AC220F>.
Recompiling the kernel with the config lines
controller wd0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr
disk wd0 at wd0 drive 0
disk wd1 at wd0 drive 1
in the configuration file. The kernel recognizes the new drive, an
IBM-H3256-A3 (badge-engineered?) drive as <H3256-A3>. But I can't disklabel
it. Every time I try it produces the errors
disklabel: /dev/rwd1a: Invalid argument
and then (from the system)
[date+time+machine name] /386bsd: wd1: Cannot find label (no disk label)
The devices wd0 and rwd0 are
crw-r----- 1 root 3, 8 Dec 1 18:01 /dev/rwd1a
brw-r----- 1 root 0, 8 Sep 7 18:56 /dev/wd1a
I have tried setting up a 1-drive system with the new drive, and as
wd0 it disklabels just fine, with correct parameters and then newfs's OK. I
have set it up as 2-drive and set up DOS on the second drive - FDISK seems
to have no problems. So I would guess that my hardware is OK.
So what? Am I being like badly dumb? Or is it really a bug?
Thanx
Simon
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