From owner-freebsd-isp Sat May 18 7:14: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from richard2.pil.net (richard2.pil.net [208.8.16.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89B6C37B405 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 07:14:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 8338 invoked by uid 1825); 18 May 2002 14:14:02 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 May 2002 14:14:02 -0000 Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 10:14:02 -0400 (EDT) From: X-Sender: up@richard2.pil.net To: FreeBSD ISP List Cc: Lawrence Farr Subject: RE: Bizarre Adaptec 2110S Issue In-Reply-To: <001b01c1fe51$ca122f40$c70ba8c0@lfarr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 18 May 2002, Lawrence Farr wrote: > Sounds like it's trying to boot off the array instead. > Does your CD spin just before the read error? The light flashes very briefly. I figured that's what this is, too, but again, it will boot Linux or Win2k from CD just fine, which is what's so bizzare. In any case, I think I found a workaround. I turned off "Bus Boot Enable" in the Adaptec BIOS, and the CD boots now. I don't know why the Adaptec tech didn't think of this...it only took me 4 hours :-/ James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up@3.am http://3.am ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message