Re: [9fans] 4ed Install from CDROM fails

Re: [9fans] 4ed Install from CDROM fails

[Russ Cox]

Do you have a secondary master?  If not, make the
CDROM the secondary master.  I suspect that we're
not detecting secondary slaves without masters.

Russ

Re: [9fans] 4ed Install from CDROM fails

[Andrew Pochinsky]

It might the same problem that existed in r3: when a cdrom is the
secondary master and a zip in a slave, they don't respond to IDE
identify within the standard's time window. As a result, plan9 does
not see either of them. Increasing the timeout before the driver
decides that there is nothing on an IDE bus helped in r3. BTW, I see
the same behavior with 4e on the machine which initially had problems
with r3. Another symptom is that the sdC0 light does not go off at
all. (Not that I pretend to understand why, bu increasing the timeout
fixed that too.)

--andrew

   From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
   Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 10:31:10 -0400

   Do you have a secondary master?  If not, make the
   CDROM the secondary master.  I suspect that we're
   not detecting secondary slaves without masters.

   Russ

Re: [9fans] 4ed Install from CDROM fails

[Daniel Jahre]

In comp.os.plan9, you wrote:
>
>It might the same problem that existed in r3: when a cdrom is the
>secondary master and a zip in a slave, they don't respond to IDE
>identify within the standard's time window. As a result, plan9 does
>not see either of them. Increasing the timeout before the driver
>decides that there is nothing on an IDE bus helped in r3. BTW, I see
>the same behavior with 4e on the machine which initially had problems
>with r3. Another symptom is that the sdC0 light does not go off at
>all. (Not that I pretend to understand why, bu increasing the timeout
>fixed that too.)
Sorry for my stupid question, but how do set up the timeout during
the install procedure.

thnx,

--
Daniel Jahre
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computer science student @ Chemnitz Universtity of Technology
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mailto: Daniel.Jahre@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de

Re: [9fans] 4ed Install from CDROM fails

[Andrew Pochinsky]

Deniel Jahre wrote:
>
>   Sorry for my stupid question, but how do set up the timeout during
>   the install procedure.
>

You have to rebuild the kernel.

--andrew

[9fans] 4ed Install from CDROM fails

[Daniel Jahre]

Hello everybody,

I tried to install 4ed on an AMD K5 System from CDROM.
It seems that Plan 9 does not detect my CD Drive and is
therefore unable to mount the CD. My harddisk is the
primary ide master and the CD drive is the secondary slave.
I would like to mount/detect the CD Drive manually but it
seems impossible to escape the install program for a
better shell :-)
Suggestions are welcome.

thnx,

--
Daniel Jahre
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computer science student @ Chemnitz Universtity of Technology
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mailto: Daniel.Jahre@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de