From: carlj@hpcvmcdj.cv.hp.com (Carl Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: 386BSD new user questions
Date: 5 Oct 92 15:13:26 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA

I can report a mostly successful 386bsd installation on my home system,
but I have several questions.  Part of this is almost certainly due to
my not being familiar with BSD unix in general (I work with SYSV
though), so if there is some good documentation which explains some of
this I would appreciate hearing about it.

1.  In some files I see a reference to a new book on the internals of
    386bsd that should be out in late 1992; does anybody know the status
    of this?  The same files also refer to the on-line 386bsd user
    manual.  Does this just refer to the man-pages, or is there some
    other manual I haven't discovered?  (I have already read the
    Installation Notes and the FAQ.)

2.  My LAN (WE8003 card) doesn't seem to work properly, and I am not
    sure what is going wrong.  The ifconfig is not reporting any errors,
    but when I try to ftp to another machine the ftp just times out.
    Any attempt to access the machine from the lan gives the console
    message 'reject 65531', which appears to be a kernel message.  I
    have included a sample from the log file later.  My lan is just a
    thinlan segment to one other machine, so routing shouldn't be the
    problem.  The lan works under DOS using NCSA, and is set to IRQ 2
    and I/O address 0x280.

3.  My SCSI tape (Archive 2525S on Adaptec 1542B) seems to work, but
    always reports an error when it starts.  The first try it usually
    doesn't work, but the second try it will work properly.  This may be
    due to using low density DC600 tapes in it for now, or it may be due
    to the driver not handling a 2525S properly.  I have included a
    sample from the log file later.

4.  The floppy boot disk will allow different screen sizes, as well as
    having a screen blanking timeout, but I can't find either available
    in the standard hard disk configuration.  I would like to know where
    these are, so I can try installing them (I have the src set
    installed).

5.  I have an IDE drive for DOS, but I am using SCSI for 386bsd, so I
    would like an easier way of switching.  Currently I use the BIOS
    configuration to disable the IDE drive to boot 386bsd.  I see where
    Linux has boot managers available, but I haven't seen any mention
    here.

6.  Can the mtools access the IDE drive when it is disabled, or can they
    access an MSDOS partition on the bsd drive?  If I can't access the
    DOS partition on the SCSI, then I'll take it off for more 386bsd
    room.

The following is the log from my /var/log/messages file for a normal
boot:
Oct  4 12:22:41 cjbsd /386bsd: pc0<color> at 0x60 irq 1 on isa
Oct  4 12:22:41 cjbsd /386bsd: com1 at 0x3f8 irq 4 on isa
Oct  4 12:22:41 cjbsd /386bsd: com2 at 0x2f8 irq 3 on isa
Oct  4 12:22:41 cjbsd /386bsd: wd0 <TOSHIBA MK234FC> at 0x1f0 irq 14 on isa
Oct  4 12:22:41 cjbsd /386bsd: fd0 drives 0: 1.44M, 1: 1.2M at 0x3f0 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
Oct  4 12:22:41 cjbsd /386bsd: as0 at 0x330 irq 11 drq 5 on isa
Oct  4 12:22:41 cjbsd /386bsd: we0 ethernet address 00:00:c0:ff:88:15 at 0x280 irq 9 on isa
Oct  4 12:22:41 cjbsd /386bsd: npx0 at 0xf0 irq 13 on isa
Oct  4 12:22:42 cjbsd /386bsd: changing root device to as0a
Oct  4 12:22:42 cjbsd /386bsd: as0: attached tgt 0 <FUJITSU M2624F-512 0404> winchester disk 

The following message occurs after a ping from an external machine:
Oct  4 14:19:43 cjbsd /386bsd: reject 65531
Oct  4 14:19:55 cjbsd last message repeated 3 times

The following are the messages after trying (unsuccessfully) to read
from my tape drive:
Oct  4 14:20:57 cjbsd /386bsd: as0: attached tgt 4 <ARCHIVE VIPER 2525 25462 -005> tape 
Oct  4 14:20:57 cjbsd /386bsd: as4a: illegal request reading fsbn 0-19
Oct  4 14:20:57 cjbsd /386bsd: scsi sense: f0 0 5 0 0 28 0 6 0 0 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
Oct  4 14:20:57 cjbsd /386bsd: scsi resid = 255

The following are the message after trying (successfully) to read a 2nd
time from my tape drive:
Oct  4 14:21:13 cjbsd /386bsd: as4a: controller error 0x12 reading fsbn 0
Oct  4 14:21:13 cjbsd /386bsd: scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
Oct  4 14:21:13 cjbsd /386bsd: as4a: controller error 0x12 reading fsbn 0
Oct  4 14:21:13 cjbsd /386bsd: scsi sense: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 

Anyways, sorry for such a long posting, and thanks for any leads you can
give me.

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Carl Johnson              carlj@cv.hp.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd