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Re: Trantor controller problems (Newbie)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Remisoski)
Thu Jul 13 00:33:19 1995
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 95 08:41 EDT
From: remisosk@forklift.mi04.zds.com (Tom Remisoski)
To: rory.macdonald@paisley.ac.uk
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <2739.9507111223@chaos.paisley.ac.uk> (rory.macdonald@paisley.ac.uk)
>>>>> "Rory" == Rory Macdonald <rory.macdonald@paisley.ac.uk> writes:
Rory> [...deleted...]
Rory> I have the 1.2.8 boot and root disks from the Slackware
Rory> distribution (taken from Sunsite last week).
Rory> When booting without a command line at the boot: prompt there is
Rory> no check carried out for partitions, and everything else seems to
Rory> be recognised ok. Continuing to feed in the root disk allows me
Rory> to log in as root, but when I run fdisk I get 'cannot open sda'
Rory> Ok, so it can't 'see' my hard drive properly. I then got hold of
Rory> the drive geometry for the Seagate (c=1931, h=31, s=71) and
Rory> provided these at the boot: prompt during the LILO floppy
Rory> bootup. A check is started this time for the partitions but
Rory> starts looking for hda returning a message along the lines of
Rory> DRDY error status 0xff {busy} ... a pause of some 5-6 seconds,
Rory> then ...
Rory> ide0: do_ide_reset : timed-out, status=0xff
Rory> unable to read partition table of device 0300
Rory,
It looks like you have the wrong boot disk from Slackware. Try the
one called "scsi" in the Slackware bootdsks directory. I'm no
expert, either, but the messages you're seeing are coming from the
IDE hard disk driver, not the SCSI driver.
Tom
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Tom Remisoski (remisosk@forklift.mi04.zds.com)
Database Analyst (T.Remisoski@zds.com)
Zenith Data Systems
