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From: madams@phantomware.ca (Matt Adams)
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: [9fans] Disks not detected while installing Plan 9 on Dell OptiPlex GX1
Date: Sat,  5 Sep 2009 16:32:13 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87skf13tw2.fsf@marvin.902northland.adams.home> (raw)

Hi folks:

I have an older Dell OptiPlex GX1 (600MHz PIII) that I am having
trouble installing Plan 9 onto.  I am using a bootable CD ISO of Plan
9 that I downloaded last night so things should be current.

The system has two 130GB hard drives installed.  Everything works
under Debian Linux.

*** Plan 9 is not able to detect the hard drives. ***

Here is what I see during the boot process:

PBS1...
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
ELCR: 0C20
islba: drive 0x80 extensions version 33.0 cx 0.5
extgetsize: drive 0x80 info flags 0x1
bios0: drive 0x80: 137,438,952,960 bytes, type 3
islba: drive 0x81 extensions version 33.0 cx 0.5
extgetsize: drive 0x81 info flags 0x1
bios0: drive 0x81: 137,438,952,960 bytes, type 3
reading drive 0x80 offset 0 into seg:off 600:0...
biosdiskcall: int 13 op 0x42 drive 0x80 failed, ah error code 0x80
sectread: bios failed to read 512 @ sector 0 of 0x80
probing cd...dev A0 port 170 config 85C0 capabilities 0F00 mwdma 0407
found partition sdD0!cdboot; 52978+1440
reading drive 0x80 offset 0 into seg:off 600:0...
biosdiskcall: int 13 op 0x42 drive 0x80 failed, ah error code 0x80
sectread: bios failed to read 512 @ sector 0 of 0x80
reading drive 0x80 offset 1 into seg:off 600:0...
biosdiskcall: int 13 op 0x42 drive 0x80 failed, ah error code 0x80
sectread: bios failed to read 512 @ sector 1 of 0x80

During the partdisk step of the install process Plan 9 only sees sdD0
as possible disks.

I have tried saying "yes" and "no" to DMA for disk drives before the
windowing system starts up and there is no difference in detected
disks.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I might to do overcome
this problem?  I would appreciate anything here as I am flying pretty
blind.

I am running the most recent version of the BIOS (A10) from Dell.


Thanks in advance,

Matt









             reply	other threads:[~2009-09-05 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-05 22:32 Matt Adams [this message]
2009-09-06  0:13 ` erik quanstrom
2009-09-06 20:45   ` Matt Adams
2009-09-06 20:57     ` erik quanstrom

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