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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!olivea!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: [386BSD] EISA 486/33 & Adaptec 1742A - COMPLETE SUCCESS Message-ID: <1992Oct2.110154.19271@autelca.ascom.ch> Date: 2 Oct 92 11:01:54 GMT References: <25.2ACA1701@purplet.demon.co.uk> Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland Lines: 46 Granville.Moore@purplet.demon.co.uk (Granville Moore) writes: >On 22 Sep 1992, You said to All: >JM> Dell 450SE, 486 50Mhz, EISA, 24 Meg RAM >JM> Adaptec 1742 SCSI controller >JM> WD 8013W 10baseT ethernet >JM> when i boot the Fixit disk (with debug stuff) i get: >JM> [ lots of what looks like disk sector debugging ] >JM> [ 0.1 headers ] [ list of devices found by 386BSD deleted.] >JM> it then hangs, or at least appears to do nothing. >JM> any ideas? >I get exactly the same results with a Texas Instruments 1300 (386/dx) system. >Currently with MDA (ugh!, but itwas a terminal server...), just about to >upgrade to VGA. >Likewise, any ideas? Yes. Take the new SCSI drivers from Julian Elischer (julian@tfs.COM) AND his new boot-blocks. Without the new boot-blocks you can't boot from the harddisk. Install them manually ! Put the 1742A (or 1740A ?) in "standard mode" (i.e. emulation mode of 1542B), don't change the default factory settings (port 0x330, irq 11, drq 5) build a new kernel (on a different system) and put it on a boot-floppy, e.g., fixit.fs - that's what I did - it may work with dist.fs, too. After a lot of tests and many, many mistakes I made with the disklabel program and esp. the calculation of blocks, etc. I succeeded yesterday in getting the system installed and booted. I even have a MS-DOS partition on the same disk ! THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PHANTASTIC WORK, Julian (and Bill, Lynne and all the others) ! I wouldn't have a running 386BSD at home without you ! Yippieh ! Now I can start some further work on it. Norbert. -- Norbert Bladt, Ascom Autelca AG, Worbstr. 201, CH-3073 Guemligen, Switzerland Phone: +41 31 999 65 52 FAX: +41 31 999 65 44 Mail: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt