From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Jan 14 09:54:18 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA07601 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:54:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from marcos.networkcs.com (marcos.networkcs.com [137.66.16.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA07596 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:54:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hinman@us.networkcs.com) Received: from us.networkcs.com (us.networkcs.com [137.66.11.15]) by marcos.networkcs.com (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) with ESMTP id LAA10559 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:53:07 -0600 (CST) Received: (from hinman@localhost) by us.networkcs.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA02406 for freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:53:06 -0600 (CST) From: "Lee E. Hinman" Message-Id: <199901141753.LAA02406@us.networkcs.com> Subject: Help with Onboard Adaptec 7890 and LVD drive To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 11:53:06 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I'm trying to install 3.0Release on a Gateway ALR 7200, and I'm having a daemon of a time getting it to boot off the Hard drive. Here are the specs: 2 Adaptec 7890 onboard Controlers, Bios 2.01 Seagate ST34573LW Hard Drive Phoenix Bios 4.0 6.00.4 What happens: Boots off floppy fine detects 7890 Controller Do Novice Install, with Minimal distribution set reboot get a "Read Error" from Bios when it should start booting FreeBSD Things I've Tried: Different LVD terminators Different SCSI cables Jumpering the TP jumper on HD Forcing HD Single Ended Slowing Down Transfer Rate to 40M/sec in Adaptec Bios True Partion Entries Explicitly setting bootable flag during format I have Disabled the Second Adaptec Controler Does Anybody have any ideas? Thanks Lee -- ___________________________________________________________________________ | Lee E. Hinman PhD. | Email: hinman@networkcs.com | | Network Computing Services Inc. | | | Minneapolis, MN 55415 | Web: www.networkcs.com | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message