Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 13:35:22 MST From: steve@khoros.unm.edu (Steven Jorgensen) To: peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger), freebsd-questions@wcarchive.cdrom.com Subject: Re: SCSI bus of the damned. Message-ID: <9501112035.AA24089@borris.khoros.unm.edu>
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On Jan 11, 13:29, Peter Berger wrote: } Subject: SCSI bus of the damned. >> Aidez-moi, s'il vous plait. >> >> I have just installed an Adaptec 1542CF, an internal SCSI hard drive, and >> an external NEC 3xe CDrom drive in my machine, and attempted to install >> FreeBSD. >> >> All was well until I attempted to use the CD-rom. The install program >> verified the checksums fine, and then began the extraction process. Soon >> after, I got memory errors, and the 1542 controller stopped responding >> to commands. The system kept looping through the debugger, saying things >> like "MBO not responding" and "1542CF frozen?" >> >> I am under the impression that everything is terminated correctly, but I >> am re-checking anyway. Has anyone ever seen this before, and if so, >> how the hell do I fix it? >> >> If it matters, my hard drive is SCSI ID 6, and the CDrom is ID 1. }-- End of excerpt from Peter Berger There was a manufacturing flaw in most (if not all) NEC 3xe drives that were manufactured in early 1994. This drive just doesn't not work whether it be DOS, FreeBSD, or any other operating system.. If you have such a drive the only solution is to replace it. I've never seen the exact error message you're talking about, but then I've only seen the error from Linux and DOS, so it is going to be different. We had a drive here that was manufactured as late as April 1994 that didn't work. I'm not sure when the cut off is when this was fixed in the assembly line, but I would check the manufacturer date on it first. If it's not early 1994 model, then I'm not sure what the problem is. Steve -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Steven Jorgensen | Khoral Research Inc. steve@khoros.unm.edu | 6001 Indian School, Suite 200 (505) 837-6500 | Albuquerque, NM 87110 ------------------------+------------------------------------ This Space for Rent. | URL: http://www.khoros.unm.edu -------------------------------------------------------------
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