sutol@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Spaceman Spiff) (03/01/89)
I hope that someone can solve this problem.
The problem:
When the binddrivers command is loaded and executed the hard
drive's light comes on and stays on and the CLI prompt never
returns. As soon as I reboot the computer the hard drive's
light goes off again.
My configuration:
A500, KS 1.2, WB 1.3, Pacific Peripherals Subsystem 500, A2090 controller,
A501 expansion, external floppy disk, Seagate ST4096 hard disk, and an
external case & power supply for the hard disk.
Related facts:
* Although the hard drive was used when I bought it, I am pretty sure it works.
* The drive is un-PREP'd and un-FORMATted.
* The binddrivers command seems to work when the drive is off and
the controller has power. (at least the prompt returns.)
/* Begin file: SYS:devs/mountlist */
/************************ BEGIN ST-506 partitions **********************/
/* DH0: will be from 3 to 511 */
/**/
/* ST-506 hard disk drives are units 1 and 2 */
RES0: Device = hddisk.device
Unit = 1
Flags = 0
Surfaces = 8
BlocksPerTrack = 17
Reserved = 2
Interleave = 0
LowCyl = 0 ; HighCyl = 1
Buffers = 30
BufMemType = 0
#
/* P2: will be from 511 to 1023 */
/**/
/* Sample Mountlist Entry to add another partition to a ST-506 drive */
P2: Device = hddisk.device
Unit = 1
Flags = 0
Surfaces = 8
BlocksPerTrack = 17
Reserved = 2
Interleave = 0
LowCyl = 511 ; HighCyl = 1023
Buffers = 30
BufMemType = 0
#
/**************************** END ST-506 partitions **********************/
So I skip binddrivers (what the heck :-) ) and try:
1> mount res0:
1> prep res0:
* prep (V33.34) returns "Error -1 on OpenDevice of hddisk.device", this error is
probably caused by the lack of binddrivers (i.e. the file sys:expansion/hddisk
has not been mapped to the hardware yet because binddrivers hangs if I run it.)
I was feeling experimental... So I tried:
1> copy sys:expansion/hddisk devs:hddisk.device
1> prep res0:
* prep (V33.34) returns "Error 32 on OpenDevice of hddisk.device," is this
what one calls progress? The error message is different at least.
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If anyone has ideas on what is causing my problems please let me know.
Thanks for any and all help.
-Stuart McIntyre
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