From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 12 06:12:52 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA15252 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 06:12:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from postman.csulb.edu (postman.csulb.edu [134.139.1.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA15244 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 06:12:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bwildasi@csulb.edu) Received: from brian-wildasinn (ppp23-116.its.csulb.edu [134.139.23.116]) by postman.csulb.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAA13374; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 06:13:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <000101be575b$120dfe60$3203fea9@brian-wildasinn> Reply-To: "Brian Wildasinn" From: "Brian Wildasinn" To: , X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 Subject: SCSI for Debian2.0,Slackware3.6,FreeBSD3.0,NetBSD-1.3.2 Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 06:13:45 -0800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all! Debian2.0,Slackware3.6,FreeBSD3.0,NetBSD-1.32 seem to be doing the same thing during installation. they're all saying "No SCSI attached!!!" Why is it that only Redhat5.2 was able to see my SCSI drive during installation? All the other installers gave me one choice only --/dev/hda1 (Linux via Debian & Slackware) or /dev/wd0 (*BSD)-- or nothing at all if the UDMA drive was unplugged. It's been a few days, but I think I had to trick Redhat also, by making the bios select scsi first and removing the ribbon from the IDE drive. Anyway SCSI first returns 0, then the SCSI Drive and Card appear to do some sort of download of driver info, so that the Redhat installer eventually sees the SCSI drive. Looks like Redhat has a longer probe time than the other installers. So what should I do? I was really surprised about Debian since I've had 2.0 running on a m68k macintosh for quite a while with SCSI disk chains. Tho this one is a U2W scsi card with matching transfer speed IBM drive. These other installers appear to probe the system without looking at a BIOS selection, which for my box can switch preferences between IDE and SCSI, which looks similar to load order choice for floppy, CDROM, and C drive, etc... So is the only way to get these other OSes up is to unplug PnP settings for the SCSI card? Or is there some other tweak to solve this? By the way, only Redhat5.2 had a working fips20, fdisk programs for FAT32 partitions. Changed the unused paritions to FAT16, then tried them with Linux native, but no go with that either. Any help is appreciated! Brian Wildasinn bwildasi@csulb.edu notes: Asus p2b 440bx PII350, Adaptec SCSI Card 2940U2W; Win98 & Redhat dual booting with Win98 requiring first priority in LILO to avoid hanging the MBR. Basically I;'ve got a 4Gig drive with equal parititions for each OS. Here's some of the /var/log/messages: Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Linux version 2.0.36 (root@porky.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Tue Oct 13 22:17:11 EDT 1998 Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2 Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: tty03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 33 Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc800-0xc807 Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc808-0xc80f Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: hda: WDC AC310100B, 9671MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1232/255/63, UDMA Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: hdb: VerH, ATAPI CDROM drive Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:253, ATAPI CDROM drive Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: scsi : 0 hosts. Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: scsi : detected total. Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Partition check: Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: hda: hda1 Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: (scsi0) found at PCI 12/0 Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 407 instructions downloaded Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.2/3.2.4 Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: scsi : 1 host. Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-34560D Rev: DC1B Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 80.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8925000 [4357 MB] [4.4 GB] Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 > Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message