duncanl%pernod@unc.UUCP (Lynne Cohen Duncan) (01/31/89)
Reply-to: duncanl%pernod@unc.UUCP (Lynne Cohen Duncan) Our site runs several VAX 750's, 780's and a 785. The disk drives are Fujitsu Eagles on SI 6100 controllers. We now run 4.3, but are interested in converting to ULTRIX because we will have several 6200 series machines running ULTRIX. When ULTRIX 2.0 was distributed, I tried to install it on a 750 with root on a Fujitsu Eagle drive. I could get the kernel loaded, but the root partition would not mount, giving the errors root file system device ioctl failure root file system device is offline I have not tried installing ULTRIX since version 2.0. I would like to hear from any sites that are successfully running 3.0 or 2.2 where the root disk is a Fujitsu Eagle on a System Industries 6100 controller. Does ULTRIX now support this hardware as a system disk? What changes had to be made to use the Eagle? What driver are you using? Alternately, if you had to deal with the "root device ioctl failure" problem with another disk or controller, how did you fix it? Thanks for your help. Lynne Cohen Duncan duncanl@cs.unc.edu or ...!decvax!mcnc!unc!duncanl