Open Unix Installation IDE Drive not found

[nashcom]

Hi

I'm trying to load Open Unix 8.0.0 for the first time, and have a new P4 PC. It has a new 40GB IDE ATA-100 HDD. I've gone through the first few screens to setup the locale etc, then I got to the bit about loading HBA from FDD. I had read that IDE wasloaded as standard, so I just told it to got through the automatic DCU. It flashes a message about ide (seems to load), then displays a message 'unable to find a root hard drive'.

The drive is seen in the BIOS. I've tried changing some of the settings, but it's still not loading:

Access mode: AUTO (options CHS, LBA, Large)
HDD S.M.A.R.T capability (tried both enabled/disabled)
IDE HDD Block Mode (enabled)
Cylinders 1277
Heads 240
Precomp 0
Landing Zone 19157
Sector 255

I'm probably missing something simple, but it's getting late, and I'm tired...

I've had a look on the Caldera site, and see that there is a new IDE driver (hba_ide.800b.dd.Z) that seems to address some issues with HDDs > 32GB. However, I haven't a clue how to download and create an HBA disk from a Windows98 PC, and I'm not sure if this will fix the problem, anyway.

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[nashcom]

Hi - It's okay. I knew I was tired. The HDD had been jumpered as Cable Select, and was being identified as a slave.

I'd still like some info on downloading the new ide drivers. There is a jumper on the drive to limit the cpacity to 32GB. Should I set this, or will I get away with using the full 40GB?

 

[Josch]

Uncompress it with winzip and use rawrite to write the floppy-image to a floppy.

Older IDE-HBAs produce corrupt files.
I got this result when I fill the filesystem after installation with several 1GB files of the same contents. Comparing the files with the source file shows that some of the copied files are different - when using HBAs older than 8.0.0b.

best regards

 

[Josch]

Uncompress it with winzip and use rawrite to write the floppy-image to a floppy.

Older IDE-HBAs produce corrupt files.
I got this result when I fill the filesystem after installation with several 1GB files of the same contents. Comparing the files with the source file shows that some of the copied files are different - when using HBAs older than 8.0.0b.

best regards