Re: Problems with OpenServer 6

Chen, how is your box setup? i.e. is your CD/DVD drive primary master,
secondary slave, what?

You should DEFINITELY turn on AHCI so you can use the AHCI driver. You
will get NCQ, hot-plug, a bunch of things and it should work with no
problems. That should cover your two SATA II disks.

As for IDE, I've tested the 714d driver with ICH7R on several boxes and
it works fine. I don't quite understand the issue. HAve you jumpered
for cable select? If so jumper it for master. Your CD/DVD driver,
provided its the only PATA device, should be primary master since you
don't have any other devices.

Btw, during install, you can see error messages if you switch to the
console during install (especially during the DCU screen where it
loading drivers), by pressing CTRL-ALT-H (CTRL-ALT-F1 to flip back I
think) or ALT-SYSREQ-H, either way.

In fact, please do the above if the DCU completes and post what you see
(sdiconfig -l output).

Finally, 714a, 714b are not patches. They are separate drivers, i.e.
you don't have to install them in any particular order. 714d is the
latest driver and should work on most boxes. The only issue with 714d
is it requires a new PCI driver to deal with Enhanced and Compatible
Intel based IDE controllers (found on ICH chipsets), hence, the recut
CD.

-aps


C. Coulter wrote:
D . Thomas Podnar wrote:
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 09:46:49PM -0700, C. Coulter wrote:
Hi all!

Here's the configuration that I'm having problems
with:

Hardware:
Asus P5WD2 Motherboard with Marvell Gigabit onboard
Intel P4 2.8 GHz
Crucial 512 MB memory
Asus 64 MB MX4000 video card
Adaptec 29160 SCSI adapter
Seagate Travan 8 tape drive
Two (2) Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320 GB SATA II disks
Sony 1.44 MB Floppy
Sony DW-U30 DVD burner
Moxa CP104JU 4 port RJ45 serial port card

Software:
OpenServer 6.0.0
OpenServer 6 Development System
Maintenance Pack 2
Marvell Yukon ethernet driver

Problem No. 1:
I had a functioning OpenServer 6 system when
I checked the SCO web site and saw that there were
a number of patches that SCO was "recommending" over and
above Maintenance Pack 2. So, I downloaded them and
applied them. I had been using my DVD burner to backup
and restore files without any problems prior to this.
However, once I applied the patches, my DVD burner and
IDE driver no longer appeared during the system boot
process and I could no longer use the DVD drive.

I wasn't sure what caused the problem, so I did a
fresh install of OpenServer 6 and then applied the
patches one by one. I was able to determine that
the problem was caused by patch 7.1.4d to the IDE
driver. As soon as that patch was applied, the
driver would disappear from the boot process.
However, it was still shown in "pkginfo". I then
used "pkgrm" to remove the IDE driver and applied
patches 7.1.4c and 7.1.4b (in that order) from the
SCO website. Neither one made the DVD drive and
the IDE interface usable. Unfortunately, 7.1.4a
(which is what comes with the base operating
system was not available on the website). Does
anyone know if this is a defective patch? Could
I have done something wrong to cause this? How
can you retrieve the base driver 7.1.4a when a
patch is installed using "pkgadd" and doesn't
give you a chance to retain the original files as
"custom" often did?

I don't know the answer to this question, but I've looked
at your motherboard specs and manual and the the driver readmes.

In the BIOS, you should set: Configure SATA as to AHCI
The setting for: Onboard IDE operate mode I'm not sure.
You may be able to set it to Enhanced mode, you may have to play
with it.

Try each until everything shows up in the boot list or "sdiconfig -l".

If your drives weren't in AHCI mode originally, you should re-install
so that the AHCI driver gets picked up, then install AHCI 1.2 either
before or after MP2.


Tom
D. Thomas Podnar
Microlite Corporation
2315 Mill Street
Aliquippa PA USA 15001-2228
724-375-6711
888-257-3343 Sales
Developers of Microlite BackupEDGE


APS and Thomas:

I'd like to thank you both for taking the time to look
at my problem. Thank you both for your suggestions,
but, unfortunately, they did not work.

First, APS, I tried the recut CD on a spare drive as
you suggested. However, the install program would not
go past the driver recognition stage because it could
not find the CD/DVD drive (even though that was the
drive it was booted from). I suspect that the recut
CD is probably using the 7.1.4b, 7.1.4c, or 7.1.4d
driver that wiped out the IDE/DVD driver and was the
original cause of my Problem No. 1. I tried installing
with the BIOS set to AHCI and all the variations of
"Standard IDE", but nothing worked.

Thomas, I had the disk drive setting in the BIOS set
to AHCI all along as I wanted to take advantage of
the speed increase in the SATA II drives. When you
have AHCI set in the BIOS, the setting for "compatible/
enhanced" (for IDE devices) is not shown as an option.
Using this setting and the original, logoed, SCO
install disk allowed me to install the system. I
have subsequently installed AHCI 1.2 after MP2.
At this point, I have not installed any of the new
IDE driver versions. When I have the BIOS set to
AHCI, the install program always picks up the AHCI
driver. Previously, when I had installed the bad
patches, the AHCI driver was still there and the
hard drives continued to work. Therefore, I don't
think that the AHCI driver had anything to do with
the problem. BTW, the P5WD2 manual (on page 4-17)
says the the "Onboard IDE Operate Mode ... appear
only when the Configure SATA As item is set to
[Standard IDE].

Does anyone have any other ideas about this problem
and/or the 2 GB limit problem?

Thanks for your valuable time,

Chen Coulter
wizard2277@xxxxxxxxxxx

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