From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Sep 12 10:26: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from conn.mc.mpls.visi.com (conn.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C3E837B42C for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 10:26:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GAMERA (jfb.dsl.visi.com [209.98.143.40]) by conn.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C51C811B for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:25:27 -0500 (CDT) To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Promise Ultra100 controller References: <20000912112733.E8284@visi.com> From: James Felix Black Date: 12 Sep 2000 12:27:18 -0700 In-Reply-To: 's message of "Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:27:33 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Following up my own message (yes, it's gauche.) What actually happens is that the installer cannot see any disks at all; and when I boot from floppy, interrupt the boot process, and issue an lsdev command, the (installer? second-stage loader? I need a better understanding of the FreeBSD boot process) system crashes, with a BTX error. The disks are an IBM Deskstar 75gxp, 45gb, and a Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 40 40gb. The IBM is formatted NTFS (Win2k), and the Diamondmax has a working FreeBSD system on it, so I know that it's not a problem with the disks. Thanks in advance for any advice, helpful hints, etc. (jfb) -- I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message