From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 3 10:51:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA07626 for current-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 10:51:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id KAA07617 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 10:51:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA16694 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 19:51:30 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA17543 for current@freebsd.org; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 19:51:29 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id TAA15643; Fri, 3 Jan 1997 19:36:21 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 19:36:21 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2 Beta References: <57g20isrgp.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <57g20isrgp.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk>; from Paul Richards on Jan 3, 1997 15:34:14 +0000 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Paul Richards wrote: > The amd driver probes the scsi bus and finds the hard disk which is > listed as (this is all typed in by hand) > > (amd0:0:0): "COMPAQPC DPES-31080 S31K" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 > sd0(ams0:0:0): Direct-Access 0Mb (1 512 byte sectors) > sd0(ams0:0:0): with 0 cyls, 64 heads, and an average 32 sectors/track Can you try whether another SCSI controller would find the disk correctly under FreeBSD? Wrt. the AMD driver, it's probably best to talk to Stefan. > The probes then continue as expected until sysinstall starts, I get > the following message > > /stand/sysinstall running as init > > and then a completely blank screen. It's probing for the disk devices. Apparently, the SCSI controller or bus jams then. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)