Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 09:18:22 -0500 (EST) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! My Disks Are GONE... Message-ID: <XFMail.981105091822.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811050929310.19324-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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Doug Rabson, On 05-Nov-98 you wrote: > 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.). Thanx Doug. But; * There was no O/S switching going on * I left it off overnight * I tried to move the board from slot to slot, or even to put the Qlogic board from the other machine in. Same result. BTW, the disk controller is a DEC creation that has the NCR (by some other name) and a Tulip Ethernet on the same card. Somehow do not feel as if the controller is at fault, but something else. Shall I try to move the controller and its disks to the working machine? Is there a documented way to boot the box over the net with ALL filesystems over NFS? Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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