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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!204.253.208.40!insync!Gamma.RU!srcc!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.urz.uni-heidelberg.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!ifib7!bertram From: bertram@ifib7.ifib.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bertram Barth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Installing on an ESDI disk Date: 11 Dec 1996 16:59:16 GMT Organization: Institut fuer industrielle Bauproduktion / Uni Karlsruhe Lines: 29 Message-ID: <58mp94$atv@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <d7g21fxr34.fsf@thoth.cs.ohiou.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ifib20.ifib.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4975 In article <d7g21fxr34.fsf@thoth.cs.ohiou.edu>, Mark Allman <mallman@thoth.cs.ohiou.edu> wrote: > >Is there a special trick to getting NetBSD to install on an old ESDI >disk? (Long story, don't ask why). I can get to the point where >the install script runs newfs, but then it dies with some nasty >write errors. Has anyone had such a problem? I ran into similiar problems when I tried to install NetBSD-1.1 onto a machine with 2 old ESDI disks. It's some time ago know thus I don't remember all the details. After placing some print-statements in the kernel it turned out that the info the disk is giving about itself is (IMHO) misinterpreted. There's one byte or word read from disk which's bits are describing the features of the disk (ie. cts- or lbn-adressing, etc.). If I remember correctly, then my disk returned (-1) to this call which was interpreted as "all bits set". But even after clearing all the bits the disk didn't work correctly and I somehow lost interest in fiddling around with this stuff. Thus I got rid of both ESDI disks without solving the problem... This wont help you, but at least you know that you're not alone :-) Ciao, bertram -- Bertram Barth, bertram@ifib.uni-karlsruhe.de, (++49 721) 608-2168 Universit"at Karlsruhe, Institut f"ur Industrielle Bauproduktion Englerstr. 7, D-76128 Karlsruhe FAX: (++49 721) 66 11 15