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Date:      Tue, 25 Apr 1995 22:23:22 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Paul Pries <paul@pp2.smc.south.telia.se>
To:        Boyd Faulkner <faulkner@mpd.tandem.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, faulkner@devnull.mpd.tandem.com, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Problem booting SNAP floppy on PCI/I-486SP3G
Message-ID:  <Pine.3.89.9504252244.A9459-0100000@pp2.smc.south.telia.se>
In-Reply-To: <9504251930.AA03975@olympus>

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On Tue, 25 Apr 1995, Boyd Faulkner wrote:

> > 
> > > > : (ncr0:5:0): 200ns (5 Mb/sec) offset 8.
> > > > : (ncr0:5:0): "IBM 0661467 G l" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
> > > > : sd3(ncr0:5:0): Direct-Access
> > > > : sd3(ncr0:5:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0 Invalid field in CDB
> > > > : sd3 could not mode sense (4). Using ficticious geometry
> > > 
> > > Ahhh.. and unplug this guy too, it seems to be a SCSI 2 device that
> > > does not understand a mode sense to page 4??  Very strange!
> > 
> > No, a "type 0" device ?  doesn't make sense!
> > 
> > This guy isn't by any chance a "differential" device ?
> 
> Possibly, would it work with DOS?  It does.  It was a bear disklabeling it, though.
> That is a different thread, however.

I'd say it simply is some junk IBM disk. I had the same problem with an 
old 120MB IBM drive back in the good (bad??) old days of 386BSD-0.1.
If it wasn't exactly the same errormessage, then it was pretty darn near it.

If you get it to work, please feel free to tell me how you did it... :-)

/Paul.

> 
> Boyd
> 
> > 
> > Anyway, check out all connections & terminations as the first thing...
> > 
> > -- 
> > Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
> > 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
> > => 'no rude people are relevant'
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> _______________________________________________________________________
> 
>  Boyd Faulkner                                  faulkner@isd.tandem.com 
> _______________________________________________________________________
> 

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