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- From: prang@du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Juergen Prang)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] Problems with 2 IDE disks.
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 21:53:00 GMT
- Organization: Universitaet Duisburg GH
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- In comp.unix.bsd Richard Kirby (rbk@icbl.hw.ac.uk) wrote:
- : Hi,
- : I have a DC-2032 IDE cache card with a Fujitsu M2624T (500MB) as the master
- : and a Conner CP3204 (210MB) as a slave (since I have no technical
- : documentation for either drive I have had to play about with the jumpers until
- : it worked - I actually wanted the Conner to be the master as that was my old
- : disk and was already set up for 386BSD, but the Fujitsu refused to be
- : subserviant).
-
- With my Conner CP3544 (540MB,IDE) I got a one page sheet containing the setups of
- different Conner drives. For the CP3204 I found the following jumper settings:
- Single Drive: Jumper on C/D
- Master Drive: Jumper on C/D and DSP
- Slave Drive : No jumpers installed
-
- : First of all, the default distribution would not see my Conner - the old set
- : of patches didn't fix that either.
-
- : So I fetched patchkit-0.2 from ref.tfs.com yesterday and tried it last night.
- : I can now mount my second disk, but there are a couple of problems.
-
- : 1) On booting, when polling for disks I get the following for both disks:
- : <wdgetctlr failed, assuming OK>
-
- I got the same message when booting Nate's fixit and dist-fs kernel (including
- the patchkit-0.2) from floppy. After testing all devices the bootstrap
- crashed. My BSD partition starts after a 200MB DOS partition. I'm using
- the drive in translation mode, so this may be the reason for the problem
- observed.
- BTW - the same problem occurred with the default distribution kernel. I was
- able to boot BSD with a patched kernel containing Holger's codrv and some
- other patches. I hadn't had the time to look at the patches applied to this
- kernel, so I can not tell you, why this kernel boots.
-
- [...deleted...]
-
- : ps Does any think that I should try the barsoom wd driver?
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- what's this ?
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- Juergen Prang | prang@du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de
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