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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!uknet!cf-cm!news From: spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Jim Blade's question on IDE drives' installation Message-ID: <24995.9208261606@thor.cf.ac.uk> Date: 26 Aug 92 16:06:19 GMT References: <1992Aug19.040750.442@microsoft.com> Sender: news@cm.cf.ac.uk (Network News System) Organization: University of Wales College at Cardiff Lines: 66 X-Mailer: Cardiff Computing Maths PP Mail Open News Gateway In article <1992Aug19.040750.442@microsoft.com> jhenshaw@microsoft.com (Jeff Henshaw) writes: | |In article 3773 in comp.unix.bsd, jim@blade (Jim Rump) |writes... | || A week later I bought an other IDE (SEAGATE). || Of course I tried to run the install script. || The result: BSD did work with DOS on the same HD. || My question is: Why do two IDE's differ in the way || discribed above? | |Please forgive me if this type of issue has been |re-hashed before, but I didn't see a response off hand. | |Machine: WYSE 386/16 4 Mb. RAM | 80 Mb. Seagate IDE HD | 3.5 & 5.25" floppies | Video7 VGA | |I tried installing 386BSD (0.1) from the "Tiny BSD" install |diskette using the install script. I'm installing |from the 3-1/2" 1.44Mb drive, onto the 80Mb Seagate IDE |drive [which is the only HD in the machine]. | |The TinyBSD floppy boots perfectly, although is doesn't |list the name of my HD, as the install notes suggest it |should (the install notes suggest checking the cabling, but |everything else recognizes the drive). Anyway, I proceed |to install, and everything is apparently copied properly |(I can hear the HD writing as the install script reports |its actions). However, upon getting the |prompt "Press enter to boot from the HD," I hit enter, |and after the floppy drives are checked, I'm left with |a frozen machine with the A: (3.5") drive light on, even |though the drive is empty. | |I've tried using FDISK to have a DOS and BSD partition, |as well as letting the install script overwrite the whole |drive. I noticed that after booting the TinyBSD floppy, |one can use the command "shutdown -todos" to restart and |boot from a DOS partition. Upon doing this [attempts to |troubleshoot], the hard disk continually tries to initialize |itself, and gets caught in a nasty, violent thrashing loop. | I've got similar problems. I couldn't get install to work (see previous posting) so I installed everything by hand. When I rebooted I had the same result, a: drive light on and a hang. Rebooting from floppy was ok and everthying on my two partitions is still there. It just won't boot from the hard disk. I tried to fdisk my drive but that doesn't work either now. My hard disk seems to be totally trashed. Using edpart it seems to think that I have 1023 cyls, 255 heads and 0 sectors!! Using diskedit gives the same results. My bios settings are fine. Are these parameters stored on the disk somewhere and have they been overwritten?? Anyone got any ideas? The drive is a seagate st1144a IDE. -- Paul Richards at Cardiff university, UK. spedpr@uk.ac.cf.thor Internet: spedpr%thor.cf.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk UUCP: spedpr@cf-thor.UUCP or ...!uunet!mcsun!uknet!cf!thor!spedpr +++