Disk controllers and weird booting rituals.
Rich Brennan
brennan at merk.UUCP
Mon Jan 23 16:07:59 AEST 1989
I hate being a pain-in-the-net, but I've got this weird booting problem
with which I could use some help. Besides, you all did so well with my
last question :-).
I've just upgraded to this WD-1007 ESDI controller, and it has this
weird boot sequence:
Hard reset the machine (i.e. the reset button), and the machine
does its RAM scan, etc. I get a "Hard Disk Controller failed"
message from (I think) my BIOS. However, if I do a "soft" reset
at this point (CTRL-ALT-DEL), then apparently the controller is
recognized, and everything works.
Doing the above, I was able to install Xenix 2.3, and bring my system
completely up (and lose about 5 meg of incoming news because I screwed
up my HDB Permissions....).
I went through every conceivable contortion I could think of to get
this thing to boot on a hard reset, including the four combinations of
enabling/disabling the WD-1007 BIOS and its 34->17 sector translation
mode. Always the same result.
Has anyone out their seen this weird hard/soft reset behavior or have
some guess as to what I could look at? The system is usable, but I'm
hosed if I get a power glitch.
If you'll mail suggestions, I'll post the summary. Thanks again...
Rrrrrich.
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...!{uunet,linus!alliant}!merk!root Rich Brennan
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