Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 16:48:13 -0500 From: Stephen Couchman <scouch@io.org> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Problem partitioning SCSI disk and creating filesystems Message-ID: <199512162148.QAA00525@io.org>
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Thanks for your help so far! While I am waiting for Walnut Cove to send me FreeBSD 2.1.0, I have downloaded the 2.1.0 install disk from www.freebsd.org to make sure that my hardware is recognized. After partitioning the hard disk (a small MS-DOS partition, and the rest for FreeBSD) and writing the info to disk, I ran into a problem labelling the partitions within the FreeBSD partition. After requesting that the install program allocate the space for the filesystems using defaults, I tried to write the info to my hard disk. The following errors came up: 1. Unable to swap to /dev/sd0s2b (this is/will be the swap filesystem) 2. Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rds0a Should I be attempting to write the filesystems at this point? Should I be waiting until a later point, i.e. after I have selected the installation media)? I can't reproceed past setting up the disks in any case, but I would like to be ready with working hardware once the CD ROM arrives. Thanks -- Stephen At 04:01 PM 12/17/95 +1030, Michael Smith wrote: >Stephen Couchman stands accused of saying: >> >> I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 from a Walnut Cove CD. When I try to >> partition my hard disk, I am told that the system cannot find it. > >Erosion is a wonderful thing, is it not? > >> I am using an Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller with a Fujitsu SCSI disk drive >> attached. This drive is found without a problem by MS-DOS, but not by BSD. > >You are using an Adaptec 2940 "Ultra" which has a different PCI signature to >the original 2940, and which is _not_ supported by FreeBSD 2.0.5. You will >need to use WC's NQA exchange policy to get a copy of 2.1. > >> Stephen Couchman | scouch@io.org > >-- >]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ >]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ >]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ >]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ >]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[ > ______________________________ Stephen Couchman | scouch@io.org
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