386bsd and Maxtor lxt213A IDE drive

[Huy Dinh]

Has anybody gotten the 386BSD 0.0 to boot off a Maxtor LXT213A IDE
harddrive? I've managed to boot off the floppy, create a disktab
entry for the drive, label it, and newfs the a and h partition. I
do get error messages saying that there's a format error in the
bad track table and an occasional extra-interrupt error. However,
I can mount the a partition and write to it. The problem is when
I try to boot off the hard drive, it dies with a trap 12, but the
screen flashes by too quickly to get more data than this. Any info
on this would be much appreciated! Please mail to h...@pegasus.com.

Mahalo,
Huy

[James Risner]

h...@pegasus.com (Huy Dinh) writes:

>Has anybody gotten the 386BSD 0.0 to boot off a Maxtor LXT213A IDE
>harddrive? I've managed to boot off the floppy, create a disktab
>entry for the drive, label it, and newfs the a and h partition. I
>do get error messages saying that there's a format error in the
>bad track table and an occasional extra-interrupt error. However,

I dont know about the rest, but the bad format track error comes from
your disktab entry. If the drive is 1001 cylc (like mine) you have
to create a disk tab saying that is is 996 cylc. disktab/mkfs know that
they can go 5 cylcs beyond the value in the disktab entry. So in your case
if your drive ONLY has 1001 then disktab/mkfs was trying to format cylcs 1002
to 1006 thus producing an error.