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From: sjb@piglet.UUCP (Seth J. Bradley)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Ultrix 2.0 and Emulex QD21 PROBLEMS
Message-ID: <239@piglet.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 26-Sep-87 20:10:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: piglet.239
Posted: Sat Sep 26 20:10:59 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 12:06:09 EDT
References: <689@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU>
Organization: Bradley Marketing, Modesto, CA
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Summary: ULTRIX V2.0 install problems(non-DEC hardware).
Xref: mnetor comp.periphs:598 comp.unix.wizards:4533

In article <689@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU>, wyatt@cfa.harvard.EDU (Bill Wyatt) writes:
> I've been bitten by an apparent incompatibility between Ultrix 2.0 and
> the Emulex QD21 (with a Maxtor 4380) drive subsystem. I just got through
> installing 2.0 on one of our uVax II/GPX's, and it doesn't see the drive
> at boot time (it does see the controller). I's like to find out what
> others know about this.

I went through a similar hassle when upgrading from V1.2 to 2.0
on a system running on a U.S. Design VIP Subsystem using two 4380's.
ULTRIX 2.0 would not install on the U.S. Design.  The install software
seems to depend on there being a genuine DEC controller out there(When,
oh when, will DEC realize that a sizeable portion of their customers use
non-DEC hardware?).  My workaround was to re-install an RD53 as disk0
with the U.S. Design as units 1 and 2.  I then installed V2.0 on the
RD53.  I then ran into another problem when trying to execute newfs
on the U.S. Design.  All the inodes above 512 were bad.  A few hours
with "fsck -y" fixed that, and I was then able to tar the system from
the RD53 to the U.S. Design, re-configure the system, and boot off the
U.S. Design.  Tedious, but it worked.  I realize I have a different
controller than you, but this approach may still work.  BTW, I hope
you have better luck with Emulex than I did with U.S Design.  They
still haven't answered my complaint, and that was several weeks ago.



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