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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: Wide SCSI support
To: wwchan@students.wisc.edu (Warner Chan)
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 19:38:15 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <199511220253.UAA32211@audumla.students.wisc.edu> from "Warner Chan" at Nov 21, 95 08:53:24 pm
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> 
> At 05:03 PM 11/21/95 -0800, you wrote:
> 
> >> The message are:
> >> .
> >> .
> >> .
> >> ahc1: 274x Wide Channel, scsi Id=7, aic7770 >= Rev E, 4 SCBs
> >> ahc1 at 0x2000-0x20ff irq 11 on eisa slot2
> >> ahc1 waiting for scsi device to settle
> >> (ahc1:0:0): "M64Q52 40 " type 0 fixed SCSI 7
> >                                             ^
> >I hope that's a 2..
> 
yuK!

> 
> >
looks like the 'inquiry' command has returned total garbage..
> >> sd0(ahc1:0:0): Direct-Access 2464MB (5046275 512 byte sectors)
                                    ^ this looks slightly better

> >> (ahc1:1:0): "42-9C12A T042-9 " type 0 fixed SCSI 3
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^this is crap too

> >> sd1(ahc1:1:0): Direct-Access 800MB (1638403 512 byte sectors)
                                         this looks possible, but is it right?
> >> (ahc1:2:0): "NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:500 1.0" type 5 removable SCSI 2
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^this is more like what SHOULD
                                          show up
> >> cd0(ahc1:2:0): CD-ROM cd present. [266444 x 2048 byte records]
> >> ahb0 not found
> 
> >that's probably aha or ahb, right?
> yeah! ahb0 I made a mistake here but not above.
that's not a problem.. you really don't have one..

this is a problem for Mr Gibbs I think....

if you boot off the  install floppy and do the 'fixit' option, can you
access the drives using dd?
e.g.
dd if=/dev/rsd0 of=/dev/null count=1000 bs=32k

> 
> >> .
> >> .
> >> .
> >> .
> >> npx0 on motherboard
> >> npx0: INT 16 interface
> >> rootfs is 1000 kbyte compiled in MFS
> >> /stand/sysinstall running as init
> >> 
> >> 
> >you are running off the install floppy right?
> >forgive me but I forget what problem your were having..
> >this seem sto have worked fine..
> >what was the problem..?
> 
> >> >> >> Installion problem: Cannot parition wide scsi Harddisk (the 
> >> >> >> installion program cannot find SCSI hd)
> >> >> >> 
> >> >> >> Configuation: Adaptec 2742W wide scsi controller
> >> >> >>               Fujitsu M2694EQA 1GB Wide  w/ id 0
> >> >> >>               Micropolis 4221AVW 2GB Wide w/ id 1
> >> >> >>               NEC 3xi CDROM w/ id 2
> >> >> >> 
> >> >> >> The startup process was fine, kernel detect all the devices 
> >> >> >> listed above, but after get into the installion menu, and try 
> >> >> >> to choose HD for partition. Error display like: no installable 
> >> >> >> HD was found, check you HD controller.
> >> >> >> 
> >> >> >> Please Help!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
>