[9fans] Plan B ?

[9fans] Plan B ?

[geerten kuiper]

My hardware:
Mainboard: MSI 6321 with VIA chipset
CPU: Dual Pentium III 1GHz
SCSI: Tekram DC-390U3W (LSI 53C1010 chip)
Graphics: Diamond Viper V550 (nVidia TNT chip)
Mouse: USB, but connected to the PS/2 port with a little adapter that came
with it. 

I found Nick's wiki page about the TNT (thanks..) and adapted my bootflop
according to his recipe. I also tried his complete bootflop. In both cases
I see some messages about the SCSI being detected, 9PCFLOP.GZ being
detected, CPU (at least one of them) being recognized, again SCSI, and then:
39008 pages
156032K bytes
592832K swap

That's where it stops.

Is there a Plan B for me ? Or am I just out of luck, hardwarewise ?

Geerten.

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Re: [9fans] Plan B ?

[Boyd Roberts]

> Geerten Kuiper            |  "It is customary to append a signature or 
> Corn. Houtmanstraat 113   |   .sig to a mail message, usually containing 
> 2593 RG   Den Haag        |   information on the author, along with a 
> Nederland                 |   joke or a motto."
>                           |                                Olaf Kirch
>                           |        LINUX Network Administrators Guide

it is also customary to limit them to 4 lines max.

Boyd Roberts        http://www.insultant.net        boyd@insultant.net

What do you know about surfing, Major?  You're from goddamn New Jersey.
    -- Lt. Colonel Kilgore

Re: [9fans] Plan B ?

[geerten kuiper]

Sorry, I didn't know that. Makes sense though. I'll have to think up a new
one then. Thanks for mentioning it.

At 22:46 8/16/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>> Geerten Kuiper            |  "It is customary to append a signature or 
>> Corn. Houtmanstraat 113   |   .sig to a mail message, usually containing 
>> 2593 RG   Den Haag        |   information on the author, along with a 
>> Nederland                 |   joke or a motto."
>>                           |                                Olaf Kirch
>>                           |        LINUX Network Administrators Guide
>
>it is also customary to limit them to 4 lines max.
>
>Boyd Roberts        http://www.insultant.net        boyd@insultant.net
>
>What do you know about surfing, Major?  You're from goddamn New Jersey.
>    -- Lt. Colonel Kilgore
>
>
>

Re: [9fans] Plan B ?

[geerten kuiper]

I'm glad to say that I found a solution: I disabled "USB Mouse Support" in
BIOS Setup. IIRC this is supposed to provide mouse support to non-USB OS's,
but in this case the combination of a PS2 mouse with a tablet hanging off
the USB port (I guess I should have mentioned that in my hardware list)
seems to have created a problem.

With the option turned off I could boot into the setup screen. I'll try a
complete install next week.

Geerten.

Re: [9fans] Plan B ?

[geerten kuiper]

At 17:15 8/16/2001 -0400, jmk wrote:
>ok. the bootstrap probes for the 53c8xx automatically, i understand now.
>try adding the line
>	*maxsd53c8xx=0
>to plan9.ini.

With this change the first four SCSI messages still appeared, but the two
afterwards did not. The hang came immediately after the CPU message.

Re: [9fans] Plan B ?

[jmk]

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ok. the boostrap probes for the 53c8xx automatically, i understand now.
try adding the line
	*maxsd53c8xx=0
to plan9.ini.

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From: geerten kuiper <geerten@bart.nl>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan B ?
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 22:40:14 +0200
Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20010816224014.00d8a160@pop.bart.nl>

Jim,

Nick's nvidia-ready bootflop does not contain the scsi0= line. Yet it does
the same thing: _including_ the SCSI messages. Strange.

I also get to the same point with my personalized standard bootflop,
without the nvidia support.

Geerten.


At 16:07 8/16/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>although the driver will recognise the 53C1010 i'm not sure it
>knows how to operate it correctly (nigel@9fs.org would know).
>if you can, comment out the line in the plan9.ini file on the floppy
>which configures the scsi controller, e.g. put a '#' at the beginning
>of the line 'scsi0=...'. that will let us know if it's the scsi
>driver which is hanging.
>
>--jim
>


Geerten Kuiper            |  "It is customary to append a signature or 
Corn. Houtmanstraat 113   |   .sig to a mail message, usually containing 
2593 RG   Den Haag        |   information on the author, along with a 
Nederland                 |   joke or a motto."
                          |                                Olaf Kirch
                          |        LINUX Network Administrators Guide

Re: [9fans] Plan B ?

[geerten kuiper]

Jim,

Nick's nvidia-ready bootflop does not contain the scsi0= line. Yet it does
the same thing: _including_ the SCSI messages. Strange.

I also get to the same point with my personalized standard bootflop,
without the nvidia support.

Geerten.


At 16:07 8/16/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>although the driver will recognise the 53C1010 i'm not sure it
>knows how to operate it correctly (nigel@9fs.org would know).
>if you can, comment out the line in the plan9.ini file on the floppy
>which configures the scsi controller, e.g. put a '#' at the beginning
>of the line 'scsi0=...'. that will let us know if it's the scsi
>driver which is hanging.
>
>--jim
>


Geerten Kuiper            |  "It is customary to append a signature or 
Corn. Houtmanstraat 113   |   .sig to a mail message, usually containing 
2593 RG   Den Haag        |   information on the author, along with a 
Nederland                 |   joke or a motto."
                          |                                Olaf Kirch
                          |        LINUX Network Administrators Guide

Re: [9fans] Plan B ?

[geerten kuiper]

Yes, it's the floppy.
And the messages from the SCSI driver are:

sd53c8xx: SYM53C1010 rev. 0x01 intr=15 command=2100007
sd53c8xx: SYM53C1010 rev. 0x01 intr=15 command=2100007
sd53c8xx: bios scntl3(18) stest 2(00)
sd53c8xx: bios scntl3(70) stest 2(00)

and later on:
sd53c8xx: SYM53C1010 rev. 0x01 intr=15 command=2100007
sd53c8xx: SYM53C1010 rev. 0x01 intr=15 command=2100007

(Maybe this isn't completely correct: I often have trouble reading my own
handwriting..)


At 15:40 8/16/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Just to clarify, you're hanging at the initial boot off the floppy?
>I'm not sure the SCSI driver will properly deal with the 53C1010, but I
>don't see anything else that would cause problems.
>
>On Thu Aug 16 15:34:14 EDT 2001, geerten@bart.nl wrote:
>> My hardware:
>> Mainboard: MSI 6321 with VIA chipset
>> CPU: Dual Pentium III 1GHz
>> SCSI: Tekram DC-390U3W (LSI 53C1010 chip)
>> Graphics: Diamond Viper V550 (nVidia TNT chip)
>> Mouse: USB, but connected to the PS/2 port with a little adapter that came
>> with it. 
>> 
>> I found Nick's wiki page about the TNT (thanks..) and adapted my bootflop
>> according to his recipe. I also tried his complete bootflop. In both cases
>> I see some messages about the SCSI being detected, 9PCFLOP.GZ being
>> detected, CPU (at least one of them) being recognized, again SCSI, and
then:
>> 39008 pages
>> 156032K bytes
>> 592832K swap
>> 
>> That's where it stops.
>> 
>> Is there a Plan B for me ? Or am I just out of luck, hardwarewise ?
>> 
>> Geerten.
>> 
>> Geerten Kuiper            |  "It is customary to append a signature or 
>> Corn. Houtmanstraat 113   |   .sig to a mail message, usually containing 
>> 2593 RG   Den Haag        |   information on the author, along with a 
>> Nederland                 |   joke or a motto."
>>                           |                                Olaf Kirch
>>                           |        LINUX Network Administrators Guide
>
>

Geerten Kuiper            |  "It is customary to append a signature or 
Corn. Houtmanstraat 113   |   .sig to a mail message, usually containing 
2593 RG   Den Haag        |   information on the author, along with a 
Nederland                 |   joke or a motto."
                          |                                Olaf Kirch
                          |        LINUX Network Administrators Guide

Re: [9fans] Plan B ?

[jmk]

Just to clarify, you're hanging at the initial boot off the floppy?
I'm not sure the SCSI driver will properly deal with the 53C1010, but I
don't see anything else that would cause problems.

On Thu Aug 16 15:34:14 EDT 2001, geerten@bart.nl wrote:
> My hardware:
> Mainboard: MSI 6321 with VIA chipset
> CPU: Dual Pentium III 1GHz
> SCSI: Tekram DC-390U3W (LSI 53C1010 chip)
> Graphics: Diamond Viper V550 (nVidia TNT chip)
> Mouse: USB, but connected to the PS/2 port with a little adapter that came
> with it. 
> 
> I found Nick's wiki page about the TNT (thanks..) and adapted my bootflop
> according to his recipe. I also tried his complete bootflop. In both cases
> I see some messages about the SCSI being detected, 9PCFLOP.GZ being
> detected, CPU (at least one of them) being recognized, again SCSI, and then:
> 39008 pages
> 156032K bytes
> 592832K swap
> 
> That's where it stops.
> 
> Is there a Plan B for me ? Or am I just out of luck, hardwarewise ?
> 
> Geerten.
> 
> Geerten Kuiper            |  "It is customary to append a signature or 
> Corn. Houtmanstraat 113   |   .sig to a mail message, usually containing 
> 2593 RG   Den Haag        |   information on the author, along with a 
> Nederland                 |   joke or a motto."
>                           |                                Olaf Kirch
>                           |        LINUX Network Administrators Guide

Re: [9fans] Plan B ?

[David Gordon Hogan]

`A' comes after 9 in hex, not `B'.