From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 07:19:49 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA01118 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 07:19:49 -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 HAA00888 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 07:14:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sysiphos id AA27747 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for questions@freebsd.org); Mon, 18 Dec 1995 16:08:22 +0100 Message-Id: <199512181508.AA27747@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 16:08:21 +0100 In-Reply-To: Manuel Munoz Baget "Pentium, scsi & NCR-PCI" (Dec 17, 20:14) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: Manuel Munoz Baget Subject: Re: Pentium, scsi & NCR-PCI Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Dec 17, 20:14, Manuel Munoz Baget wrote: } Subject: Pentium, scsi & NCR-PCI } } Hello there, } } I have a Pentium 90, 16Mb system with a NCR-PCI-scsi-2 controller. } } The scsi controller drives two devices: } } 1. A scsi-2 Conner Hard drive 1 Gb. } 2. A scsi-2 Toshiba CD-ROM Driver } } I have tried to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 in this machine from boot diskettes } and from a scsi-2 CD Toshiba driver. } } I loaded the kernel, reconized my hardware but it get frozen without giving } me access to the installation menu. } } I installed successfully FreeBSD 2.0 in this machine, with the same } configuration... I do not know what is happening now, neither our local } guru... Seems like the PCI bus scan finds the NCR chip and the SCSI bus scans reports yoru drives ? There have been reports of firmware problems with Connor 1GB drives. These could be triggered by optimizations in 2.0.5 the FreeBSD file system code, if I remember right ... Which drive and revision do you have ? (E.g. send dmesg output from the 2.0R system.) 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