Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 17:19:02 -0500 (CDT) From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) To: paul@pp2.smc.south.telia.se (Paul Pries) Cc: faulkner@devnull.mpd.tandem.com, phk@ref.tfs.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problem booting SNAP floppy on PCI/I-486SP3G Message-ID: <9504252219.AA04474@olympus> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9504252244.A9459-0100000@pp2.smc.south.telia.se> from "Paul Pries" at Apr 25, 95 10:23:22 pm
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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 > > > > > > 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... :-) It works now. I had to scuttle disklabel to get it to write the damn disklabel in spite of what the kernel says. I don't think that is IBM drive specific. I have had the same problem with other drives before. 1 DOS partition (for games like DOOM and such) 1 much larger FreeBSD partition. > > -- > Paul Pries email: Phone: > Telia AB paul@smc.south.telia.se +46 40 445108 (home) > Region Syd +46 40 272671 (work) > 205 21 Malmo +46 10 201 8925 (mobile) > SWEDEN +46 40 974865 (fax) > > Any opinions that might have been expressed in the above message > are mine. If you like them, you can have them too. > > > -- _______________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner faulkner@isd.tandem.com _______________________________________________________________________
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