[386BSD] Problems with 2 IDE disks.

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2 total messages Started by Richard Kirby Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:59

#5668

Author: Richard Kirby
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:59

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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).

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 put in a printf for the inb command which is done inside the wdgetctlr, and
get the following:
inb(497) = 4
for both drives.
(sorry I didn't split the expression up further - had to get some sleep :)

Any ideas anyone? Does this mean that I haven't got the jumpers exactly right
or is it a problem with the cache card?

2) I can fsck two of my three old partitions on the Conner, but on fscking
the last partition it just sits there - I can interrupt it though and it says
something about trying to do something with an impossibly negatively large
number! (I know I should have written it down).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Richard.

ps Does any think that I should try the barsoom wd driver?

Re: [386BSD] Problems with 2 IDE disks.

#5735

Author: Juergen Prang
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:53

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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.

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: ps Does any think that I should try the barsoom wd driver?
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