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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Attempting to run Microport UNIX (ca 1987)
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Markus Armbruster |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Attempting to run Microport UNIX (ca 1987) |
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Sat, 28 Jul 2012 08:33:54 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) |
Matthew Ogilvie <address@hidden> writes:
> I've recently been trying to get an ancient version of UNIX
> I used to use working in qemu:
>
> Micoport UNIX System V/386, v 2.1 (ca 1987).
>
> I used this from about 1987 until about 1996, when I first
> got Linux.
[...]
> I've also noticed some other problems that I have not yet
> tracked down:
>
> -------
> Hard Drive Issues:
> -------
>
> I also encounter a couple of hard drive issues, which I haven't
> investigated as carefully, nor attempted to work around:
>
> 1. It doesn't seem to recognize the hard drive geometry, even
> if I use "-hdachs" and keep it carefully inside ancient
> limitations. Note that at the time, hard drives did not support
> self-identification commands for the geometry; you had to
> configure it in BIOS. I also have some old notes from when my
> dad was asking Microport about compatibility; apparently
> they wanted to know the specific BIOS version in order to
> decide about compatibility. Maybe UNIX is bypassing later
> standards for looking up geometry, and trying to get it in
> some non-standard way (straight from CMOS or something?)
Please run QEMU with -trace events=trace-events, where trace-events is a
file containing the line "hd_geometry_*". Post results, along with your
full command line.
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