From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri May 12 6:41:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from gw.one.com.au (gw.one.com.au [203.18.85.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEE0B37BD9C for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 06:40:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from raymond@one.com.au) Received: from one.com.au (pmo.local [10.18.85.2]) by gw.one.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id XAA07379 for freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 12 May 2000 23:40:47 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from raymond@one.com.au) Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 23:40:47 +1000 (EST) From: User Raymond Message-Id: <200005121340.XAA07379@gw.one.com.au> Subject: RE: More on AS200 won't install Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Dave Haney said: > >If I disable automatic spin-up on the disks: > > > > srm sees them > > the kernel probe sees them > > but the bloody install says I have no disks!!! > > > >If I enable automatic spin-up on the disks: > > > > the stupid install looses its init!!! > > > >What is the next thing to try? > > > > > > >Ray Newman > > > > I had something like this happin on my AS200. My problem was FreeBSD didn't > like > the fact there was still a linux partition table, and filesystems on the > disk. > It caused init to die each time the disk was probed. I eventually fixed it > by putting the disk in another machine, and doing a "dd" from /dev/zero on > it. > > Other than that, if the disk is not internal, you *really* need to be > careful about proper SCSI cables and termination. > The disk was last used as a VAX VMS disk. I tried a couple of hours ago to fix by using linux (which installs and runs fine on this machine) to put partitions (linux) on it. Didn't make any difference. Unfortunately I can't put it in another machine - I haven't got one. All disks are internal. Ray Newman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message