Date: Tue, 7 Nov 95 11:38:21 EST From: broome@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Paul Broome-MSI Visitor-USA BRL) To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: broome@allegory.cs.wesleyan.edu, paulb@linux.magnus1.com Subject: QIC-02 not found in installation/ok in UserConfig Message-ID: <9511071638.AA03227@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu>
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My problem is that the installation program cannot see my tape drive.
The Kernel Configuration Utility (sometimes called UserConfig (-u boot option))
sees it fine as does the shell started from the fixit.flp disk. But wt0
goes away even when I start up /stand/sysconfig from the fixit shell.
So I can't install from the tape drive. This system currently has SCO Release
3.2v4.0 Unix installed on the disk which runs fine. Here is SCO's hwconfig.
dev address vec dma comment
serial 0x110-0x12f 4 - unit=0 type=Digiboard
floppy 0x3f2-0x3f7 6 2 unit=0 type=135ds18
unit=1 type=96ds15
console - - - vga type=0 3 screens=24k
parallel 0x378-0x37a 7 - unit=0
tape 0x220=0x224 3 3 type=archive
disk 0x1f0-0x1f7 14 - type=W0 unit=0 cyls=989 hds=12 secs=35
This is a 386dx - 8mb with a WD Caviar 2200, Archive Viper 2150L, and
Trident TVGA9000i-2.
I ran the FreeBSD Kernel Configuration Utility - Version 1.0. I disabled
everything except the floppy disk controller (fdc0), the Archive QIC-02 tape
drive (wt0), the ide disk controller (wdc0), and the Syscons console driver
(sc0) thus removing potential conflicts. I have tried many other combinations
that seemed to have no effect. I also removed the Digiboard and the floppy
disk on unit 1 from the computer. (Note that `probe' is no longer there
contrary to the documentation. `probe` was indeed available in 2.0.5 but it
didn't help me because the utility sees the tape drive as expected.) I set
`irq wt0 3', `drq wt0 3', and `port wt0 0x220'. If I try to set
`port fdc0 0x3f2' I see an error `direction bit not set' so I leave the
fdc0 port at 0x3f0. (Note that `compatibles' is mispelled as `comaptibles'.)
So my only active drivers, shown in the visual display, are
Active-Drivers Dev IRQ Port
Storage :
Floppy disk controller fdc0 6 0x3f0
IDE/ESDI/MFM disk controller wdc0 14 0x1f0
Wangtek/Archive QIC-02 Tape drive wt0 3 0x220
Input :
Syscons console driver sc0 1 0x60
I had earlier tried booting with 2.0.5-RELEASE and with 951026-SNAP and had the
same problem. When I exit the kernel configuration utility I see that wt0 is
recognized but it does not show up in the <Alt> F2 screen (DEBUG) after
the "Welcome to FreeBSD!" There I see "ioctl(3, TIOCCOMS, NULL) = 0 (success),"
"Found a device of type disk named: wd0," and
"Found a device of type floppy named: fd0."
I have a DC6150 tape in the drive from the beginning with the directories
`floppies' and `bin' written by tar with tape blocksize 20. I can read the
tape within fixit with cpio but I see `No tape drive devices found!' when
attempting the option of choosing the installation media.
Actually, I hope I've overlooked something trivial. Thank you for your help.
-Paul
p.s. And many thanks for making FreeBSD available.
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