From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 03:13:39 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA02884 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 03:13:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sysiphos (Sysiphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA02858 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 03:13:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sysiphos id AA05140 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for questions@freebsd.org); Thu, 21 Dec 1995 12:12:17 +0100 Message-Id: <199512211112.AA05140@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 12:12:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: Jeff Bewley "Install probs: NCRc810/HP drive?" (Dec 20, 19:20) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: Jeff Bewley Subject: Re: Install probs: NCRc810/HP drive? Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Dec 20, 19:20, Jeff Bewley wrote: } Subject: Install probs: NCRc810/HP drive? } I'm trying to install FreeBSD for the first time, from the } Walnut Creek 2.1.0 CD. The bootdisk boots just fine, but whenever } I go into the "Novice" section, it informs me that it could not } locate my hard drive (a WD 3275s 2.1 gig SCSI drive, on id0). } It seems to handle my NCR3c810 controller fine, and recognize the } HP drive and my Matshita CR-504 (SCSI) CD-ROM drive, located on } id0 and id1, respectively. } As I select "Quit" from the install menu (my only real option), } I can see error messages as the system reboots. Best as I can } reassemble (I can't find a way to read them except in the few } tenths of a second before the system reboots), the messages } appear to be: } sd0:ncr0(0:0:0) asc:4e,0 ABORTED COMMAND Hard to tell what's going on, but this is most definitely not the expected behaviour ... The asc:... message is written by the higher level SCSI code, so I don't expect this to be a NCR driver problem. } Basic system information: Pentium 100mhz, 32 megs non-EDO RAM, } NCR3c810 (rev 2) controller, Diamond Stealth Graphics 2001 video } card, 2.1 gig HP SCSI drive, 4x Matshita CDROM, Zoom internal } faxmodem (com4), ms-busmouse(com1) You may want to try without the WD hard disk and CDROM, first. The NCR driver does negotiate fast synchronous transfers and uses tagged command queues, if the drive claims to support these features. This may not be true for the other operating systems you tried before. The performance optimizations can make a system fail because of bad cables/terminators or firmware bugs, though the latter are very rare ... Please send more information, and I will try to identify the cause of the failure ... Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se