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- From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: The SCSI Controller saga continues...
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 10:01:26 -0600
- Organization: Armstrong Lab MIS, Brooks AFB TX
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- OK, here goes.
-
- Jim Henrickson and I have managed to get 386bsd to recognize the Ultrastor
- 24F Hard drive controller in our Gateway machines.
-
- (A cheer rises from the crowd...)
-
- Now for the bad news. Neither of us can boot from it. Here are the symptoms:
-
- 1) Power up tests pass, the SCSI search is completed, and the hard drive is
- properly identified. The controller is also identified as ID 7, and appears
- to be correct.
-
- (Here comes the spooky part)
-
- 2) If a floppy is in the disk drive, the system will boot, and identify the
- hard disk controller as IRQ 14, 0x1f0. Isn't that the combo for the IDE drive?
- The hard drive is then mountable, fillable, fsckable, etc01.*-able, etc. Every
- check seems to work, all systems go. But only as wd0*. Remember, this is an
- SCSI drive.
-
- 3) If there is no floppy in the disk drive, the system tries (as you would
- expect) to boot off the floppy. Failing that it accesses the hard drive.
- The system dies. Locks up. Freaks. Fails. C-A-Detete has no effect. One
- time, the 'RESET' button didn't even work.
-
- (A frightened moan rises from the crowd...)
-
- Here comes the question.
-
- Huh?
-
- I have tried every boot block set I can find, including the fs{boot}fs, just
- for grins. None of them seem to help. What I think I need is an {as,sd}boot
- set that thinks it's an IDE drive (or a wdboot that works like a SCSI)?
- Any good suggestions at this point would be really appreciated.
-
- Failing that, is there a way to boot from floppy and set the root device to
- the hard drive? There sits, in the back of my mind, a nagging thought that
- says 'Yes, you could do it on the Cromemco'. Surely, 386bsd is better than
- Cromix :-).
-
-
- TSgt Dave Burgess
-
-