A/UX Install Issue - SCSI-IDE Adaptor

[istar1018]

Hey all -

Anyone have any luck installing A/UX 3.0.1 on anything with a SCSI-IDE adaptor. I've got an ACARD SCSI-IDE adaptor on my Q950's internal SCSI bus, and I've tried to attach it to various things - an old Quantum fireball, a CF adaptor, a 6.4 gb WD drive. Regardless of what is attached, the A/UX install boot process hangs when the Welcome to the Apple Workgroup Server 95 progress bar is completed (when the text changes to say Please wait. This will take a while.).

This same Q950 boots into 7.1, 7.5.5 and 8.1 just fine with the ACARD adaptor, so I think it works... and when I remove the adaptor, A/UX setup boots just fine (albeit with complaints about the lack of SCSI drives). I'm using original media, so it shouldn't be a disc issue.

Anyone gotten this to work or have suggestions about how to tweak the install process?

Thanks!

 

[porter]

Please wait. This will take a while.

So it is not lying then.

Are drives smaller than 2Gig?

Have you partitioned them prior?

 

[istar1018]

It definitely is not lying, as I let it sit overnight, and nada. No progress.

The Quantum and the CF card are smaller than 2 gigs, the WD is bigger. The WD is partitioned into a few 1 gig partitions and then some free unpartitioned space. I've tried the Quantum pre-partitioned and with all partitions deleted, and same for the CF card.

Termination should be okay, since everything is rock solid under normal Mac OS.

 

[paws]

How did you partition them? You need to use the Apple tools¸ I think.

 

[benjgvps]

Could it be an Apple ROM issue? Don't the hard drives need to be formatted with the Apple disk tools or a patched version to allow the drives to function with the computer?

 

[porter]

A/UX requires different drivers to those used by Mac OS. NuBus cards may contain drivers for Mac OS, but not A/UX (as far as I know).

Operating systems often have a hard job using a volume as it's root drive for which it does not have a driver in the kernel.

 

[istar1018]

Well, so a bit of an update. Yes, all of the drives are formatted with Apple tools - either hacked HD SC setup, A/UX HD SC setup, or Drive Setup in Panther.

No dice.

When I remove the drives but leave the acard adaptor connected to the scsi bus, A/UX setup boots but then complains about having no scsi disks... hmm.