From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 7 18:18:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA08233 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 18:18:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.atipa.com (altrox.atipa.com [208.128.22.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA08187 for ; Tue, 7 Apr 1998 18:18:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@atipa.com) Received: (qmail 14760 invoked by uid 1017); 8 Apr 1998 00:15:58 -0000 Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 18:15:58 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysintstall probing hosed on -STABLE? In-Reply-To: <19142.891997582@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Hmmm. How are these IDE drives connected? In any order. I thought I had bad disks (or non-cooperating), so I tried every combination possible. I wasted lots o' time :(... I finally waited the 3 minutes to get an error message, but none came; it was fine! If I had been patient the first time, I am sure it would have worked too. Tried w/ 1 drive, 2 drives (MASTER/SLAVE and also 1MASTER/2MASTER). Kevin > > I am installing STABLE (SNAP 0404), and everytime sysinstall starts up on > > boot, it takes over 3 minutes to get through the 'Probing devices, please > > wait...' screen. > > > > This as been on 2 totally different machines. What the do have in common: > > Fujitsu IDE hard drives, Adaptec SCSI cards (removing does not change > > anything), and Award BIOS for PPro. Different mobos (one AT, other ATX; > > one Gigabyte, one ASUS). > > > > Anyone else find this behavior? Everything runs fine after it times out or > > whatever. The whole time the hard drives sound like you are doing a > > 'find /usr/ports' :) > > > > Kevin > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message