Re: [9fans] Toshiba Tecra 720 (notebook)

[Deztroyer-a1 <alex-sci@freenet.co.nz>]

I think Toshiba's floppy drive for notebook will not run properly under
normal circumstance in the third edition. Because what happened is that I've
attempted to install plan 9 on Toshiba's satellite series notebook (on 2
different models), and Plan 9 doesn't seem like the floppy drive at all.

I think we gotta do some configuration on the kernel or something to get it
work.

Good Luck
Alex

<okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp> wrote in message
news:20001229084057.72CEB199D5@mail.cse.psu.edu...
> I'm now struggling against Toshiba notebook( really!?, it's too heavy to
me)
> Tecra 720CT, which has 1024x768x256K colors CT56650 graphic chip.
> I got this machine for my happy hacking of Plan 9 for this new year
vacation.
> Upto now, it's not so happy...because it has problem in floppy drive and
> graphic chip and so on.
>
> I'd like to hear about this machine, if someone else has done it.
>
>
> I'm now constructing kfs on this machine from our network, and it may be
> going good, at least notebook's hard disk is working to write something
> now. :-)
>
> This Toshiba's notebook has external three mode floppy drive, which is
> different from PC's three mode, but it domestic one.  It is three mode of
> 720KB, 1.2MB and 1.44MB.  The middle is for old domestin NEC machine
> which is once the most major PC in Japan.   The problem I'm suffering now
> may be more common to many of Japanese Plan 9 users, particularly
> notebook users (because we cannot change the drive!).
>
>
> When I try to boot from floppy, it fails at reading plan9.ini file.
>
> (C) Copyright 1996, 98 Toshiba Corp.  All rights reserved.
> Memory Initialize 48096KB
>
> PBS...Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> dev A0 port 1F0 config 045A capabilities 0B00 mwdma 0407
> dev A0 port 170 config 85A0 capabilities 0E00 mwdma 0000
> using sdC0!dos!plan9.ini   <====== can't find this in the floppy!!!
> #y0: 2 slot Intel 82365SL: port 0x3E0 irq 5
> #l0: xcvr10BaseT 3C589
> ether#0: 3C589: port 0x240 irq 10: xxxxxxxxxxxx
> diabase (192.168.1.11!67): /386/9pcdisk.gz
> gz ... 481665=>614086+480172+85356=1179614
> entry: 80100020
> cpu0: 133MHz GenuineIntel P54C (cpuid AX 0x052C DX 0x01BF)
> #y0:2 slot Intel 82365SL: port 0x3E0 irq 5
> #l0: 3C589: 10Mbps port 0x240 irq 10: xxxxxxxxxxxx
> dev A0 port 1F0 config 045A capabilities 0B00 mwdma 0407
> dev A0 port 170 config 85A0 capabilities 0E00 mwdma 0000
> 7291 free pages
> 13636K swap
> #A: model 0x03 0x02: not SB 16 compatible
> root is from (il, local)[il]:
>
> The error messages I got (by setting chatty=1 in dosboot.c file) are too
much
> volume to me, and essentially, it says cann't read floppy drive.
> After I booted this machine from network, I can't mount this floppy.
>
> This is the first problem.   The second concerns with graphic chip,
however,
> it's not so serious now, because I'm doing now as VGA, yes, small window.
:-)
>
> Kenji