OK, I downloaded the qnx425E patch from ftp.qnx.com/updates/qnx42/Released, and
checked it. It contains an Fsys.sym8scsi that is version 4.24Q (the same as I
already had installed).
$ cksum qnx425E.tar.F
4002867296 1788707 qnx425E.tar.F
$ fcat qnx425E.tar.F | tar -vt
…
rwxrwxr-x 0/120 105258 May 3 13:46 2000 /bin/Fsys.sym8scsi
…
I next downloaded the qnx425patchE.tar file from the web cd distribution at
http://support.qnx.com/download/updates/qnx4_OS/index.html) and installed it (I
already had 4.25 patch E installed). The installer claimed to be installing, and
it took several minutes on a P133 (lots of hard disk activity). But I still have
version 4.24Q of Fsys.sym8scsi.
I am seriously confused 
Thanks,
Brad
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:37:15 GMT, price@phunds.phys.lsu.edu (Brad Price) wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 18:02:24 -0500, “Richard R. Kramer”
rrkramer@kramer-smilko.com> > wrote:
Not sure what it is that has the version 4.25E, but there is a patch E
you can download which contains a Proc ver 4.25L, and Fsys.sym8scsi ver
4.25B, 2 Oct 2000, size is 125159.
Thanks, Richard. By 4.25E, I meant 4.25 Patch E. Somehow I have Patch E
installed with the older Fsys.sym8scsi? Here’s some output:
sin -n 3 ver
PROGRAM NAME VERSION DATE
sys/Proc32 Proc 4.25L Feb 15 2001
sys/Proc32 Slib16 4.23G Oct 04 1996
sys/Slib32 Slib32 4.24B Aug 12 1997
/bin/Net Net 4.25C Aug 30 1999
/bin/Net.ether82557 Net.ether825 4.25G Jan 11 2001
//15/bin/Dev32 Dev32 4.23G Oct 04 1996
//15/bin/Dev32.ansi Dev32.ansi 4.23H Nov 21 1996
//15/bin/Fsys Fsys32 4.24V Feb 18 2000
//15/bin/Dev32.pty Dev32.pty 4.23G Oct 04 1996
//15/bin/Fsys.sym8scsi scsi 4.24Q Mar 31 2000
less //15/etc/version/qnx
QNX Software Systems Ltd. QNX 4.25, release date 13-Nov-98
QNX Software Systems Ltd. QNX 4.25 Patch B, beta date 26-Feb-99
QNX Software Systems Ltd. QNX 4.25 Patch E, release date 31-Mar-2001
Sheesh, maybe I downloaded the wrong upgrade tar file… I’ll download it again
and reinstall it. Thanks!
Brad
Brad Price wrote:
Hi. I’m trying to get Fsys.sym8scsi working on a Winsystems EBC-TXPlus SBC with
an Aaeon PCM-3430 (Symbios 53c895 chipset) PC/104plus SCSI HBA and a Seagate
ST150176LW disk drive. QNX version is 4.25E, Fsys.sym8scsi version is 4.24Q with
a date of 3/31/2000.
The HBA BIOS seems to see the disk, and if I start the driver with
“Fsys.sym8scsi sym8scsi -c895 -d 0x0001 -vvvv” a device named hd0 eventually
shows up in /dev, but mount -p fails with a BIOS signature error, and fdisk
fails with a head/disk/sector mismatch error. If I leave the disconnect option
off, Fsys always reports no devices to use, and nothing shows up in /dev.
(Incidentally, the output of “show_pci -vvv” says the chipset is an 885, which
I’m pretty sure is incorrect. Both the chip on the board and the abbreviated
docs that came with it say the chipset is an 895.)
I hear there is a newer version of Fsys.sym8scsi out, and thought the messages
here indicated it was released, but it doesn’t seem to be in my 4.25E
distribution. I suspect it would solve my problems. How do I go about getting
it?
Thanks,
Brad Price
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