From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jun 18 16:13:39 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA07901 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jun 1995 16:13:39 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA07890 ; Sun, 18 Jun 1995 16:13:36 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA02506; Sun, 18 Jun 1995 16:13:19 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506182313.QAA02506@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: 2.05R: failure to get fd parameters correctly To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 16:13:19 -0700 (PDT) Cc: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl, gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9506182051.AA18733@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jun 18, 95 02:51:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2796 Sender: bugs-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > > >I tried to install 2.05R on a CSSI only system with a 2GB Quantum > > > >EMPIRE_2100S (Btw: dont try this at hoime..that disk sucks) > > > >Anyway: after installing all of it, it failed to boot from the > > > >fixed disk with a missing operating system. > > > >So I tried to reinstall it but now I chang4ed the geomtery to > > > >what 2.0R reported when booting. This just failed. Every key I touched > > > >I got this popu menu shouting that I entered the wrong geometry :-( > > > >I `solved' the problem by adding a dos partition of 1 meg, but this > > > >is bad. I dont want DOS. And I dont understand why I caanot use the geometry > > > >reported by 2.0R when booting for the 2.05R installs... > > > > > > > >-Guido > > > > > > I installed to an Empire 2100 last nigt using the standard Adaptec ^^^^^^^^^^^ Wrong drive Terry, the problems you are discussing are the Quantum Grand Prix series. > > > geometry since it was hanging of a 2742T. What kind of disk controller > > > are you using? > > > > OOps...sorry: > > An ncr 53c810 controller. > > > > This is waht 2.0R thought of it: > > > > sd2: 2006MB (4108600 total sec), 3053 cyl, 12 head, 112 sec, bytes/sec 512 > > The problem with the quantum and the NCR controller is the sequencer > code having a window between checking for other bus users and asserting > bus ownership because it is a fast drive. > > This hole was closed on the Adaptec sequencer code, and the procedural > fix reported to the hackers list. > > I am unsure if the fix has been incorporated into updated NCR sequencer > code -- in fact, I doubt that it has. > > Your current alternatives are: > > 1) Use a non-NCR controller > > 2) Use a different disk that does not exercise the hole. I believe > the hole is exercised by drives that are called "AV drvies". > These drives achieve their faster throughput by not doing thermal > recalibration. This is in fact a terrifically bad hack to get > the desired results, and will definitely increase the failure > rates you'll see when using the drives. > > 3) Go to the Hackers list archives, and using that information > and information obtained from NCR, fix the sequencer code. > Hopefully if you choose this option, you will donate the code > back, both for the rest of the NCR controller owners benefit > and for your own benefit in not having to reintegrate the > changes you make each time the driver is revised. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@cs.weber.edu > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD