3.2 Install doesn't see Seagate HDD

Hi,

Could someone please help me with my unsuccesful 3.2 install?

I have a pentium 1/100 with two nics, that I would like to turn into a router/firewall for my home network, using openbsd.

I have reasonable linux experience, but little to no openbsd experience.

Below is all the info I've got and what I've already tried.

• The system is a Pentium 1/100, 16 mb ram, 261 mb harddisk with two nics in pci slots. Motherboard: Abit AB-PT5 with integrated e-ide (from 1999) Harddisk: Seagate ST3290A (this may be the cause of the problem, see later)
• I have an openbsd 3.2 bootdisk
• When I boot with the boot flop, install starts, but at the point where I type "y" to continue with the install, the script quits with "no available disks found."
• The bios automatically and correctly recognises a 261 mb ide harddisk as a primary master. It says the drive is of type 0, and it correctly recognises the geometry parameters: 1001 cylinders/15 heads/34 sectors
• if I boot WITHOUT the boot flop, the system starts Windows 98, which is installed on the harddisk.
• If I connect the system to a 880Mb Quantum disk, it fails to boot at all, it just passes the memory test and then does nothing.
• If I run the bootdisk on another system, a K6-2/400 with a 6.4Gb Quantum disk, it works as it should. The install script continues past the point where it hangs on the system on which I intend to run it: it asks if the whole harddrive is to be used for openbsd, and fdisk starts in interactive mode.
• If I boot the system with the boot flop and go to /dev, I see /dev/wd0a to wd0p, /dev/wd1a to wd1p and /dev/wd2a to wd2p.
• If I try to fdisk the disk manually with fdisk -e wd0 or fdisk -e wd0a the system responds: Device not configured. The same if I try with /dev/wd0a or any /dev/wd* device for that matter
• fdisk -e /dev/wd0 produces No such device
• If I start the system, I see a table from the bios with (among other things) Primary master disk: CHS, mode 0, 261Mb
• If the systems starts to boot from the openbsd bootflop, one of the first lines on the screen is: disk: fd0 fd1 hd0* (those two floppy drives are a 3.5" and a 5.25" clay tablet drive)
• There is only one ide-slot on the motherboard: the one that the problematic hard drive is connected to.
• dmesg | grep ide: pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1 "Intel 82371FB IDE" rev 0x02: DMA, channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
• If I connect the problematic hard drive to another system (the K6-2/400), and fire it up with the openbsd-boot flop, it has the same problem: when I confirm that I want to continue with the installation, the install script quits with "No available disks found". If I boot the K6 with the problematic hard drive, WITHOUT the boot flop, it starts Windows 98 from the hard drive.
• I searched with Google to see if the Seageate ST3290A was the problem, and yes, other people have had problems with installing openbsd > 2.8 with this drive: apparently it doesn't support DMA which confuses openbsd. So I disabled dma during the floppy-boot process as follows: boot> boot-c yadda, yadda UKC> disable pciide* pciide* disabled UKC> quit yadda, yadda But then, when I came to the point where I had to confirm I wanted to continue with the install, install still said: No available disks found. fdisk -e wd0 still produced: Device not configured. With all the other /dev/wd* devices, it said the same. With /dev/wdc0 (as I saw someone do on a mailing list), it said "No such device"

Can anyone please help?

Kind regards,

Bert de Jong Received on Wed Nov 20 18:55:12 2002

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