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From: convex!castle!nomad@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Lee Damon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Help.... monitor never returns from write
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Date: 22 Sep 90 19:07:35 GMT
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I'm not sure I'm doing this right, but here's the scoop:  I'm trying to
download the minix binaries (tar files) to dragon. I have the small
root system working, the system boots Minix, login works, etc.  (I did
all that the night I got the box running.)

At this point I'm trying to follow directions in step 5 of the install
doc.

>NS32000 ROM Debugger
>Version: Sat Jul 14 19:25:31 PDT 1990
>RAM free above 0x1554
>
>Command (? for help): download 2000
>Stopped
>castle.org# !db
>dbugger/downdos bin1.tz 1 < /dev/cua0 > /dev/cua0
>Length=346262 CRC=31424
>castle.org# z
>
>Stopped
>castle 84% fg
>su
>castle.org# fg
>tip tb9600
>CRC ok, length = 346262
>Command (? for help): write d'30256 2000 d'346262

(it never comes back.... the disk activity light went out a long time
ago.)

I've tried "write d'30256*2 2000 d'346262*2" and other combinations as
well. (I left the drive table alone, 40MB should be enough to get the
file systems up and running, and when I looked at bc64, the number
wasn't 0, so I didn't want to mess with things.) No matter what I do,
it never returns.

I then reboot the box, bring up minix, and try to read what I can:
(Hoping I'll get something...)

># ncat /dev/hd4 | uncompress > /tmp/bin1.tar
>Write failed
>stdin: not in compressed format

Based on the help command, I get the impression that I'm using it
right, howerver I'm 98% sure I'm not using the monitor's "write"
command correctly. I've tried all the combinations of write that I can
think of, based on what's in the Minix install docs. I looked at the
code in scsi_hi.c, but I'm not a programming type and it made little
sense to me.

Help?

nomad
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