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Subject: Re: Adding scsi hard drive
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 12:54:42 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199508250630.QAA04446@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Aug 25, 95 04:00:21 pm
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Mike helped me setting up scsi hd:

|> 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_.

the problem turned out to be irq conflict. i chose a different irq 
address for the adaptec scsi and bootup then proceeded normally. It probed 
for the cards and recognized the drive but wouldn't boot till i changed it.

|> 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

this was great advice as fdisk wouldn't look at the drive unless this was 
done. The drive was formatted before being sent.

|> 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)

That also fixed the problem and also allowed the QIC80 tape to be recognized.
It was documented in the manual.. doh.

I still had significant problems with fdisk and disklabel. These were 
mostly related to my inexperience (never done it before). I became rather 
frustrated, booted off floppy and did it from the installation script. I 
still couldn't get it to boot off sd0 when it asks you to remove the boot 
disk and boot off the hd. Bootcode was supposedly installed. 
i signified sd(0,a)/kernel but it went to wd(0,a) anyway. I'm using v2.0.

There may have been a way to do it with sysinstall?

it's done. I'll be able to do it faster next time.

dave