Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 09:30:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! My Disks Are GONE... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811050929310.19324-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981104224118.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > The 164LX cannot find the disks after make installworld and a reboot. > They are simply gone. > > the console monitor simply looks for dka0.2000.0 or some such and never > finds it. The floppy disks seem to still be there. > > For a while, it would boot from the disks, only to hang in the device scan. > Now, the console (SRM?) cannot find the disks. > > Any idea is welcome. I got lots of work accomplished there... When I was cross developing from NetBSD to FreeBSD on the 164LX, I had to power-cycle the thing when switching operating systems before the ncr driver in NetBSD would work right. Try power-cycling it (leave it off for a few seconds etc.). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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