From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 5 01:32:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA12570 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 01:32:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA12564 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 01:32:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA23190; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 09:30:57 GMT Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 09:30:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Simon Shapiro cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! My Disks Are GONE... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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