From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 16 06:30:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA16960 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 06:30:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uswgco3.uswc.uswest.com (uswgco3.uswest.com [206.196.133.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA16952 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 06:30:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from onewnan@uswest.com) Received: from egate2.mnet.uswest.com (egate-ne1.mnet.uswest.com [151.117.138.135]) by uswgco3.uswc.uswest.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA29669 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 07:30:04 -0700 (MST) Received: from westhub.mnet.uswest.com (westhub.mnet.uswest.com [148.156.21.6]) by egate2.mnet.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id IAA14991 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 08:30:02 -0600 (CST) Received: from notes.mnet.uswest.com (newman.uswc.uswest.com [151.119.114.143]) by westhub.mnet.uswest.com (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id GAA28602 for ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 06:30:12 -0800 Received: by notes.mnet.uswest.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v1.1 (385.6 5-6-1997)) id 8725658E.004FE995 ; Fri, 16 Jan 1998 07:32:51 -0700 X-Lotus-FromDomain: USWEST From: "Owen Newnan" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <8725658E.004E5A5A.00@notes.mnet.uswest.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 07:17:36 -0700 Subject: Can't get drives to boot on Adaptec AHA-1520 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk [I'm resubmitting this since I think the original got lost in the hub crash earlier this week] Configuration: Dell Dimension P120c Two IDE drives on primary IDE controller no drives on secondary and tertiary IDE controllers Adaptec AHA-1520 SCSI HBA w/ DMA, SCSI-II, BIOS and boot enabled via jumpers Toshiba CDROM (ID=2) and Syquest SyJet (ID=0) removable drive on the AHA-1520 Situation: I've been reading the Toshiba CD on the 1520 about a year and it's performed well, without problems. I added the SyJet last fall and it generally reads, writes and performs fine under FreeBSD and other OSs. The 1520 BIOS issues a message on startup. However, I can't seem to get either of the SCSI drives to boot. For example, my FreeBSD system is on my second IDE drive so it boots as 1:wd(0,a) However, when I try to boot off 2: or inquire about its e root directory using 2:sd(0,a)? I get a never ending stream of error messages.