From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Aug 11 08:25:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA09669 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 08:25:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.210.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA09658 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 08:24:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.62 #1) id 0wxwJU-00020V-00; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 08:23:20 -0700 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 08:23:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Simon Shapiro cc: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: RE: DPT problem with new boot.flp In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Simon Shapiro wrote: > Hi Tom Samplonius; On 11-Aug-97 you wrote: > > > > I'm having a problem with the new boot.flp from > > sendero-ppp.i-connect:/crash/. Basically, sysinstall hangs during > > newfs'ing rsd0s1e. I turned debugging on, and the last line displayed > > was: > > > > DEBUG: Executing command `newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /mnt/dev/rsd0s1e' > > > > > > I can still switch consoles, so it isn't completely hung, but ^C and > > CTRL-ALT-DEL do nothing. > > > > I used "auto" during the label step, to setup a stock filesystem > > layout. > > > > I'm using this with a PM334UW on PPro 200 motherboard with 5 4GB drives > > setup as RAID-5 array. > > Which P6 motherboard? What version of the driver is on that floppy? > i have not updated a boot floppy in a long time... It is ASUS P6 motherboard. I don't recall the model, but it one that uses a CPU daughtercard. The DPT driver on the floppy claims to be 1.1.2 Another point, that I'm not sure was clear from my original message, is this sysinstall newfs's partitions backwards, so it completly newsfs'ed rsd0s1f (a 16GB /usr filesystem), then hangs on newfs'ing rsd0s1e (a 30MB /var filesystem). > Simon > > Tom