johnc@sq.com (John Cumming) (05/19/89)
just posting this for a friend of mine, you can mail him at sq!motley!spliff!steve ------------------------- Here it comes -------------------------------- Hello unix-pc users. I had a nasty disk crash? a couple of weeks ago and to my dismay I can no longer access my DOS-73 Co-processor. To my even greater dismay I could not find the DOS-73 driver diskette. So here is what information I have and I hope that some one will be able to help me with my problem. Here is the background preceded with what I'd like to know. When I try to use the Co-processor I get a window popping up saying that the device is possibly being used by another user. Is there a lock file around somewhere? Does some kind soul have one of these driver diskettes for sale should it turn out that I need one? Or know where I could order one? The background. I had been just formatting a MSDOS diskette and came back to my desk to find: ----- #pid264: killed on swap error panic: bflush: bad free list ----- At this point I could do nothing except hit the hardware reset switch. The system came up as single-user due to a corrupted /etc/master file. In the top of *my* /etc/master it now reads: ----- * The following devices are those that can be specified in the system * description file. The name specified must agree with the name shown. * pty 1037 000 004 pty 0 10 vid 1036 000 004 vid 0 9 ate 1100 000 000 ate 0 0 cmb 1100 000 000 cmb 0 0 dc73 1100 000 000 dc73 0 9 i8274 037 000 024 ser 0 0 con 037 000 204 con 0 1 disk 477 000 035 gd 0 4 plp 1133 000 005 lp 0 6 wind 1137 000 204 wd 0 7 phone 037 000 024 ph 0 8 lipc 1100 000 300 lipc 0 0 nipc 1100 000 300 lipc 0 0 fpa 1100 000 200 fpa 0 0 ----- And /dev/dc73 reads: ----- crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 9, 0 Nov 13 1988 /dev/dc73 ----- I added the dc73 line to master after looking at /dev/dc73. Can anyone tell me if I did this right? If anyone could look at theirs for suggestions that would be great. And finally I ran lddrv as follows: ----- lddrv -av dc73 allocated: 0x1000 bytes starting at 0x5b000 for device dc73, B:-1 C:-1 id:2 ----- Finally when I bootup I don't get any "Failed to load drivers" messages. Steve Hurrell motley!spliff!steve