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- Path: sparky!uunet!email!mbirgmei
- From: mbirgmei@email.tuwien.ac.at (Martin BIRGMEIER)
- Subject: Re: 386bsd installation problem for an EISA machine.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.094203.11941@email.tuwien.ac.at>
- Organization: Technical University of Vienna
- References: <AOKI.92Dec24024946@risk.Stanford.EDU>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 09:42:03 GMT
- Lines: 83
-
- In article <AOKI.92Dec24024946@risk.Stanford.EDU> aoki@risk.stanford.edu (ikuro aoki) writes:
- >Hello all,
- >
- >I am installing 386nsd on my new EISA machine.
- >Booting from the dist.fs (tiny 386bsd) was OK.
- >
- >But, when I try to run the 'install' program, the following
- >error messages came up, and I could not continue my work.
- >
- > as0d: controller error 0x12 reading fsbn 0
- > scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0 x30 times) 0 0 0 0 0 0
- > as0d: controller error 0x12 reading fsbn 0
- > scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0 x30 times) 0 0 0 0 0 0
- >
- > No disk drive to install 386BSD.
- > Would you care to have it installed on your TV instead (y/n).
- >
- >However, a SCSI disk which have enough free space is connected
- >to a SCSI controller(Adaptek 1742). This hard disk CAN be accessed
- >from MS-DOS and MS-Windows without any problems.
- >
- >Does anyone understand the meaning of the above message?
- >What is the controller error 0x12 ??
- >
- >I appreciate your responce.
- >--
- >Ikuro Aoki
- >aoki@risk.Stanford.EDU
-
- Probably the following can help you (it helped me with exactly the problem
- you are describing):
-
- > From news.univie.ac.at!hp4at!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt Fri Nov 20 10:31:15 MET 1992
- > Article: 9097 of comp.unix.bsd
- > Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- > Path: email!news.univie.ac.at!hp4at!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt
- > From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt)
- > Subject: Re: [386BSD] SCSI Bootstrap Method?
- > Message-ID: <1992Nov19.133536.10761@autelca.ascom.ch>
- > Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland
- > References: <1992Nov16.060831.24807@nas.nasa.gov> <1c6BuB4w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> <1992Nov17.073025.20477@nas.nasa.gov>
- > Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:35:36 GMT
- > Lines: 34
- > Status: RO
- >
- > tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten) writes:
- >
- > >In article <1c6BuB4w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS STAFF) writes:
- > >>tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten) writes:
- > >>
- > [ text about problems with Adaptec 1740 on EISA and getting a boot-floppy
- > deleted - NB.]
- >
- > >My net conclusion is that I need a pair of bootable diskettes which use
- > >Julian Elischer's SCSI driver code. Can anybody help?
- > I finally managed to put a fixit.fs for the EISA 1740 controller on a ftp-site
- > for anonymous ftp. This should enable you to boot on your system and to
- > install it, create (or get a new kernel) etc.
- >
- > The boot-image can be found at
- > hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch:pub/386bsd-0.1/fixit.1742a.fs.Z
- > The IP-Address is: 139.79.129.1
- > Just proceed in the same way is you would do with the normal fixit.fs disk, i.e.
- > copy it to a floppy, boot it, etc.
- > If you really need a dist.fs for the 174x, please tell me and I will prepare
- > one. However, other things (like the same for the 1542) have higher priority
- > because I promised those earlier than the latter.
- >
- > I hope this helps you and others,
- >
- > Norbert.
- >
- > P.S.
- > I will try to put a dist.fs and fixit.fs for the 1542 SCSI controller at the
- > same site tomorrow (or maybe, sorry, not earlier than monday).
- > --
- > 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
-
- Happy hacking,
-
- Martin
-