Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 12:54:42 -0400 (EDT) From: dlr <dlr@asylum.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: dlr@asylum.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding scsi hard drive Message-ID: <199508261654.MAA01758@asylum.asylum.org> In-Reply-To: <199508250630.QAA04446@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Aug 25, 95 04:00:21 pm
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Mike helped me setting up scsi hd: |> npx0 is the math coprocessor. it was hanging there becuase that is what |> came right after the probe for the scsi card and drive. | |Wrong way 'round; it was hanging there because of what happens _next_. the problem turned out to be irq conflict. i chose a different irq address for the adaptec scsi and bootup then proceeded normally. It probed for the cards and recognized the drive but wouldn't boot till i changed it. |> fdisk -i doesn't want to work though: |> |> root> fdisk -i rsd0 |> fdisk: Can't get file status of rsd0 | |Does the disk have a DOS-style partition table? |Try fdisk -i /dev/rsd0c this was great advice as fdisk wouldn't look at the drive unless this was done. The drive was formatted before being sent. |> also, since putting in the adaptec card it won't boot off of floppy ( i |> thought i would just boot off of floppy and install new system on this |> new disk). |> |> I can take the scsi card out (adaptec) and it will boot from floppy. I |> presume there is some setting I have yet to discover that is doing this. | |Does the adaptec card have an onboard floppy controller? You'll probably |have to disable it if it does 8) That also fixed the problem and also allowed the QIC80 tape to be recognized. It was documented in the manual.. doh. I still had significant problems with fdisk and disklabel. These were mostly related to my inexperience (never done it before). I became rather frustrated, booted off floppy and did it from the installation script. I still couldn't get it to boot off sd0 when it asks you to remove the boot disk and boot off the hd. Bootcode was supposedly installed. i signified sd(0,a)/kernel but it went to wd(0,a) anyway. I'm using v2.0. There may have been a way to do it with sysinstall? it's done. I'll be able to do it faster next time. dave
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