rolfe@w3vh.UUCP (Rolfe Tessem) (06/08/91)
I've been pulling my hair out for two days trying to install A/UX 2.01 from CDROM (a CD Technologies Portadrive) to a Mac II (w/PMMU) and a new Maxtor 340 meg external drive from Alliance Peripheral. The drive was formatted and partitioned with Silverlining 5.28 using the defaults for handshaking and choosing a "minimum Mac OS" setup. In every instance, the install proceeds until after the drive-type selection is made (we chose "generic", but tried several alternatives as well) and the script announces: "Creating A/UX filesystem." On most of our attempts, the drive activity light lit for about 10 seconds, went out, and then the system was hung, requiring a poweroff. Occasionally, we progressed beyond that point, but not by much. On two occasions we got something like "disk read error, error recovered (hex number) ...and some other physical and logical sector information" and THEN the system hung. On one try, we got the error messages, but it progressed to "Checking partition sizes...done" and "Copying critical files... and THEN hung. Full R/W diagnostics with Silverlining indicate no problems with the drive, and it works perfectly under Mac OS. I've disconnected everything else on the SCSI chain other than the external drive and the CDROM, to no avail (I also have a 100 meg Rodime internal on the machine, as well as an Apple Ethernet card and Radius 2-page mono display with 1-bit card.) Before either I or the machine get thrown out the window, does anyone have any clue as to what is going on here? I've spoken to Steve Carter at A/UX Support who was helpful, but just as stumped as I am. -- Rolfe Tessem | Lucky Duck Productions rolfe@w3vh.UUCP | 17 Saint Luke's Place {uunet}!w3vh!rolfe | New York, NY 10014 (413) 528-5966 | (212) 463-0029
alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) (06/09/91)
In article <117@w3vh.UUCP> rolfe@w3vh.UUCP (Rolfe Tessem) writes: >I've been pulling my hair out for two days trying to install A/UX 2.01 >from CDROM (a CD Technologies Portadrive) to a Mac II (w/PMMU) and a new >Maxtor 340 meg external drive from Alliance Peripheral. > >The drive was formatted and partitioned with Silverlining 5.28 using the >defaults for handshaking and choosing a "minimum Mac OS" setup. I'm afraid the drive isn't the problem. If memory serves, your CD-ROM is based on an NEC mechanism. This unit is not compatible with A/UX. In fact, it's not a particularly good CD-ROM at all. If I'm right that it's an NEC and you decide to replace it, get a Toshiba. They're very good. --- Alexis Rosen Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY alexis@panix.com {cmcl2,apple}!panix!alexis