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From: mschedlb@hawk.ulowell.edu (Martin J. Schedlbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: RLL and ESIX
Message-ID: <1442@ul-cs.ulowell.edu>
Date: 12 Nov 90 00:41:47 GMT
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In article <1990Nov9.213827.1059@atc.SP.Unisys.COM> mike@atc.SP.Unisys.COM (Mike Grenier) writes:
>From article <1990Nov7.051419.19612@karnak.cactus.org>, by john@karnak.cactus.org (John B. Meaders Jr.):
>> In article <1990Nov6.002853.582@medtron.medtronic.com> dt4100c@medtron.medtronic.com (Derek Terveer) writes:
>>>
>>>I have never been able to get rll controllers to work reliably with either rev c
>>>or rev d of esix.
>> 
>> I have one running under Rev D (2 floppy, 2 disks Western Digital plain jane
>> 16 bit type).  My AMI 386 BIOS does let me define my own drive type though
>> so I can set it to ST-251 with 26 sectors instead of 17 sectors.
>> -- 
>
>Yes, but can you get it to work with the Fast File System?
>I also have the Western Digital plain jane (WD1003-SR2) with my AMI
>bios but ESIX consistantly panics in the routine echd_read_vtoc() when
>booting the box after the tenth distribution floppy. My disk is somewhat
>bigger than yours, .i.e 250 meg. The S51K file system works fine.
>

I have a similar problem with an UltraStore 12F (supported by Esix) and
a ESDI drive. After booting the foundations set (first 20 disks) I get
errors like: Missing BKI segment or NOT 80386 COFF FORMAT for /unix.

This happens for the FFS, but I haven't tried it with the S51K file
system as I didn;t think that would help. But now that you mention it.

	...Martin

Martin J. Schedlbauer
Graphics Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, WL 118
University of Lowell
Lowell, MA 01854 (USA)			(508) 934-3612
Martin J. Schedlbauer
Graphics Research Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, WL 118
University of Lowell
Lowell, MA 01854 (USA)			(508) 934-3612