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Subject: Getting AT&T SVR4 up on SCSI
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.201741.47441@cc.usu.edu>
From: jrd@cc.usu.edu
Date: 16 Apr 91 20:17:40 MDT
Organization: Utah State University
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	This seems to be the time and place to ask a couple of questions of
the folks who have been through the exercise. AT&T Unix SVR4.02. Dell 310
386-20 w/4MB. Here is the problem: bringing up the system with a WD 7000 FASST2
controller. I have no troubles with a ST-506 drive. With the AT&T SCSI 4.0
Boot Floppy v2.0, however, and no other disk controller except the WD 7000
the system says something like can inappropriate system for HD 0 at
address 0x0...0350, and then can't init HD 0.
	The jumpers are right. I checked the works under DOS with CDP's
diagnostics and all went swimmingly. The hard disk is a CDC (aka Seagate)
ST4766N (766 MB raw). So, I said if it has trouble with the official 0x350
port address then try another nearby. No go, can't energize the floppy, as
we would expect if the controller were not matched to the software. No
obvious conflicts in the system (having removed essentially all other boards).
	The AT&T SCSI Diagnostics disk, v2.1, also shows problems. Any test
leaves the system hanging forever with the disk's red light on. Red switch
to recover.
	So, what might be going on here. The WD 7000 is brand new, with v3.36
ROM. The drive is brand new (albeit of an older design) and checks out fine
with non-Unix tests. I even reformatted it under DOS and found no extra bad
blocks. The machine is well worn and trustworthy. My fall back is to find
an extra day, build an ST506 kernel, go through the fun of replacing the
hd driver with Columbia Data Product's material, make a new boot floppy and
reconstuct the machine (remove extra boards and such). My hope is that it's
all my fat fingers rather than a "no way" kind of thing. [Yes, the WD board
was set for DMA 6, IRQ 15h, port 350h, with the floppy controller activated,
with the Bios set to CE00h, basically straight out the box condition matching
what my AT&T manuals say to do. LUN 0 on the drive.]
	Puzzled,
	Joe D.