From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Oct 3 14:33:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA13857 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 14:31:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rfd1.oit.umass.edu (mailhub.oit.umass.edu [128.119.175.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA13852; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 14:31:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lessing.oit.umass.edu by rfd1.oit.umass.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #20973) with ESMTP id <0EHH00590VRTQM@rfd1.oit.umass.edu>; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 17:31:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (gp@localhost) by lessing.oit.umass.edu (8.8.3/8.8.6) with SMTP id RAA19557; Fri, 03 Oct 1997 17:31:04 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 03 Oct 1997 17:31:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Pavelcak Subject: Re: ppbus problems In-reply-to: <34352F41.237C228A@whistle.com> To: Nicolas Souchu Cc: Nicolas Souchu , Greg , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ppbus problem update edited by me (Greg) informing Mr. Souchu of results. Using ppbus, I got this dmesg and system would just hang when I tried fdisk. ppc0 at 0x278 irq 12 flags 0x1 on isa ppc0: Generic chipset in NIBBLE mode plip0: on ppbus 0 nlpt0: on ppbus 0 nlpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: on ppbus 0 vpo0: on ppbus 0 scbus0 at vpo0 bus 0 sd0 at scbus0 target 6 lun 0 sd0: type 0 removable SCSI 2 sd0: Direct-Access sd0: UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 sd0: Not ready to ready transition, medium may have changed 862MB (196608 4592 byte sectors) >Nicolas Souchu wrote: > > I suspect data corruption... Please, try without any disk inside the drive > during boot. Try fdisk once the system is started (without any disk either), > you should get "medium not present" error. Then try with a disk inserted. > > -- > Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr > FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org > I tried this. I don't remeber the boot message when I booted without the disk, but fdisk still hung. I did not get "medium not present". I've since built a kernel with ppa3. I'm having better luck with that. Of four disks, I was able to fdisk all of them, mount and ls 2 of them (the other 2 I could apparently mount, but they showed nothing on ls and I know there's stuff there) and copied some stuff from one to my hard drive. These were all msdos formatted. I couldn't disklabel any of them. Something about no available space. Anyway thanks for all the help. I'm willing to keep trying with ppbus, if you have any other ideas. Greg