From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 1 10:59:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA17358 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 10:59:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA17340 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 10:59:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA01742; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 10:59:27 -0800 Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 10:59:26 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: fmtel cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 7850 (cont'd-2nd) In-Reply-To: <199604011605.SAA15087@logatome.micronet.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, fmtel wrote: > Hello, > I'am still trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 on my DIGITAL PRIORIS LX5120. > There is an onboard PCI Fast/Narrow Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI-2 controller. > Now the installation process hangs at the message "Writing partition > information in drive sd0" ! > This problem may be similar to the previous one (my two previous messages), > related to the cd-rom ... ? > Could you tell me in which direction I can investigate ? This sounds like your Adaptec is busted. Hanging at the control-A is the Adaptec's BIOS stopping on something. Did it do that before, with DOS for instance? (The OS shouldn't do anything to the Adaptec) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major