Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 16:00:21 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: dlr@asylum.org (dlr) Cc: dlr@asylum.asylum.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding scsi hard drive Message-ID: <199508250630.QAA04446@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199508250523.BAA29558@asylum.asylum.org> from "dlr" at Aug 25, 95 01:23:38 am
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dlr stands accused of saying: > 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_. > 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 > 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) > dave -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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