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- From: mbirgmei@email.tuwien.ac.at (Martin BIRGMEIER)
- Subject: Please help me with 'as: unknown mailbox paddr 0x0'...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.120809.2274@email.tuwien.ac.at>
- Organization: Technical University of Vienna
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 12:08:09 GMT
- Lines: 52
-
- Sorry if this is a FAQ (but anyway I did not find it in any of the
- copies of FAQs I have):
-
- I have the following setup:
- ISA-486C motherboard w/ 8M RAM (some Taiwanese vendor I don't know
- exactly, the # is shown on the board)
- Adaptec 1540B/42B SCSI controller
- 340M Maxtor disk (LXT-340S 6.20, from the boot info)
- 3C503 Ethernet controller
-
- When I try booting from the dist.fs disk, if I ever succeed getting
- across any as-related messages (see below), the try to run 'install',
- various combinations of SCSI-related errors occur. Below is a (hand-typed)
- excerpt from one such run:
-
- # install
- as0d: controller error 0x1a reading fsbn 1
- scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- as: unknown mailbox paddr 0x0
- Do you want to install 386BSD on the ENTIRE drive? (y/n) y
- You realize this means you lose the old contents of this drive.
- Do you *still* want to install 386BSD on the entire drive? (y/n)y
- High level formatting of 386BSD storage:
- /dev/ras0a: 653312 sectors in 319 cylinders of 64 tracks, 32 sectors
- 334.5MB in 20 cyl groups (16 c/g, 16.78MB/g, 3840 i/g)
- as: unknown mailbox paddr 0x0
- as: unknown mailbox paddr 0x0
- as0a: funny mailbox message 0x2
- writing fsbn 192-207
- scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
- asabort 0
- super-block backupas: stray intr 0xd00
- s (for fsck -b #) at:write error: 224
- wtfs: Undefined error: 0
-
- Could not format filesystem. Installation failed.
- #
-
- Most often I don't even get that far, the system hangs accessing the SCSI
- controller, even during booting from dist.fs. Also, before any 'asabort 0'
- message appears, a long delay occurs. Most of the messages are of the
- 'unknown mailbox paddr 0x0' variant.
-
- I vaguely remember that there once was a discussion about 'paddr' on
- comp.unix.bsd, but at that time I didn't have the chance trying to
- install 386BSD yet :-). So, any help would be appreciated.
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- Martin Birgmeier
- Dept. of Communications Engineering
- Technical University of Vienna, Austria mbirgmei@email.tuwien.ac.at
-