Subject: install problem (wdcstart: waiting for unbusy)
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: David Carrel <carrel@cisco.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/14/1995 09:04:26
I'm trying to install 1.0 on a gateway liberty laptop and I'm having some
troubles. I've partitioned the disk up, (DOS is on there too) and I booted
the install disks. NetBSD starts up fine from floppy and I get all the way
through the installation questrions. But problems start when I try to
newfs the disk. I rebooted and dropped to a shell prompt and tried it by
hand. The disklabel works great (both reading and writing). But when I
try to newfs the disk, it hangs and every few seconds writes the message
wd0: wdcstart: timeout waiting for unbusy: status 0 error 0
The disktab that was created is below. I'm not sure if this is a disk
error or a controller error. The disk is an IBM 2720 IDE disk. I haven't
opened the laptop yet to check out the controller hardware.
If anyone has advice they could lend, I'd really appreciate it. My next
step is to build a new boot disk with a current kernel and try that.
Dave
disktab
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ibm2720|NetBSD installation generated:\
:dt=ST506:ty=winchester:\
:nc#694:ns#63:nt#32:\
:se#512:\
:pa#32256:oa#318528:ta=4.2BSD:ba#8192:fa#1024:\
:pb#96768:ob#350784:tb=swap:\
:pc#1080576:oc#318528:\
:pe#161280:oe#447552:te=4.2BSD:be#8192:fe#1024:\
:pf#790272:of#608832:tf=4.2BSD:bf#8192:ff#1024:\
:pd#1399104:od#0: