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From: andrew@zone4.ocunix.on.ca (Andrew Low)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: 386bsd /etc/disktab entry for WD93044-A
Message-ID: <92081015500@zone4.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: 11 Aug 92 03:46:02 GMT
Organization: Zone4
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I'm current using BSD0.0 since I have a rather large booting problem with
0.1 (if the HD is enabled it hangs the floppy boot sometime after it
attempts to switch the root to /dev/fd0a..)
Attn: hls@oce.nl (H.L. Schreurs) This should help you out..
Here is my /etc/disktab entry for my drive, its a 40MB IDE..
Western Digital Model #WD93044-A
WD93044A|Western Digital 40MB IDE:\
:dt=ST506:ty=winchester:se#512:nt#4:ns#27:nc#782:sf: \
:pa#10800:oa#0:ta=4.2BSD:ba#4096:fa#512: \
:pb#10800:ob#10800:tb=swap: \
:pc#84456:oc#0: \
:ph#62856:oh#21600:th=4.2BSD:bh#4096:fh#512:
Previously this drive was configured for DOS as a type 17 drive, this
was complete wrong (although Dos worked fine). I've run QNX off this
same drive without any trouble, but 386bsd seems to do something QNX
didn't (or vice versa).
When I initially tried installing onto the hard disk I heard a terrible
'sqeek-sqeek' sound. "hard read errrors" were being reported. With this
revised disktab entry and after changing my CMOS to have a custom disk
entry (in my bios it was entry 48 which was editable, most should have
a similar type entry), there are no sqeek sqeek noises. No errors
reported when reading or writing to the HD.
I've only just initialized my file system, and will be installing the
files later, but from the sounds of things I'm past the big problem.
Now if I could only get 0.1 to boot..
+/+\+/+\+/+chew carefully/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+\+/+
Roo [andrew@zone4.ocunix.on.ca] m a c h i n e l o v e h a t e f e a r v o i d .
"dreams are all that separate us from the machines"