From: mbirgmei@email.tuwien.ac.at (Martin BIRGMEIER)
Subject: Re: 386bsd installation problem for an EISA machine.
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 09:42:03 GMT

In article <AOKI.92Dec24024946@risk.Stanford.EDU> aoki@risk.stanford.edu (ikuro aoki) writes:
>Hello all,
>
>I am installing 386nsd on my new EISA machine.
>Booting from the dist.fs (tiny 386bsd) was OK.
>
>But, when I try to run the 'install' program, the following
>error messages came up, and I could not continue my work.
>
>	as0d: controller error 0x12 reading fsbn 0
>	scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0 x30 times) 0 0 0 0 0 0
>	as0d: controller error 0x12 reading fsbn 0
>	scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (0 x30 times) 0 0 0 0 0 0
>
>	No disk drive to install 386BSD.
>	Would you care to have it installed on your TV instead (y/n).
>
>However, a SCSI disk which have enough free space is connected
>to a SCSI controller(Adaptek 1742). This hard disk CAN be accessed
>from MS-DOS and MS-Windows without any problems.
>
>Does anyone understand the meaning of the above message?
>What is the controller error 0x12 ??
>
>I appreciate your responce.
>--
>Ikuro Aoki
>aoki@risk.Stanford.EDU

Probably the following can help you (it helped me with exactly the problem
you are describing):

> From news.univie.ac.at!hp4at!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt Fri Nov 20 10:31:15 MET 1992
> Article: 9097 of comp.unix.bsd
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
> Path: email!news.univie.ac.at!hp4at!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt
> From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt)
> Subject: Re: [386BSD] SCSI Bootstrap Method?
> Message-ID: <1992Nov19.133536.10761@autelca.ascom.ch>
> Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland
> References: <1992Nov16.060831.24807@nas.nasa.gov> <1c6BuB4w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> <1992Nov17.073025.20477@nas.nasa.gov>
> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:35:36 GMT
> Lines: 34
> Status: RO
> 
> tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten) writes:
> 
> >In article <1c6BuB4w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS STAFF) writes:
> >>tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten) writes:
> >>
> [ text about problems with Adaptec 1740 on EISA and getting a boot-floppy
>   deleted - NB.]
> 
> >My net conclusion is that I need a pair of bootable diskettes which use
> >Julian Elischer's SCSI driver code.  Can anybody help?
> I finally managed to put a fixit.fs for the EISA 1740 controller on a ftp-site
> for anonymous ftp. This should enable you to boot on your system and to
> install it, create (or get a new kernel) etc.
> 
> The boot-image can be found at
> 	hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch:pub/386bsd-0.1/fixit.1742a.fs.Z
> 	The IP-Address is:  139.79.129.1
> Just proceed in the same way is you would do with the normal fixit.fs disk, i.e.
> copy it to a floppy, boot it, etc.
> If you really need a dist.fs for the 174x, please tell me and I will prepare
> one. However, other things (like the same for the 1542) have higher priority
> because I promised those earlier than the latter.
> 
> I hope this helps you and others,
> 
> Norbert.
> 
> P.S.
> I will try to put a dist.fs and fixit.fs for the 1542 SCSI controller at the
> same site tomorrow (or maybe, sorry, not earlier than monday).
> -- 
> Norbert Bladt, Ascom Autelca AG, Worbstr. 201, CH-3073 Guemligen, Switzerland
> Phone: +41 31 999 65 52			FAX: +41 31 999 65 44
> Mail: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch   UUCP: ..!uunet!mcsun!chsun!hslrswi!aut!nbladt

Happy hacking,

Martin