From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 31 16:16:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA21730 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 16:16:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.sprint.com (mail.sprint.com [208.4.28.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA21682 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 16:15:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan.early@openmail.mail.sprint.com) Received: from sii01.mail.sprint.com ([192.251.141.141]) by bastion.mail.sprint.com with ESMTP id <124917>; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 13:49:29 -0500 Received: from [144.223.148.153] by sii01.mail.sprint.com with ESMTP; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 13:46:40 -0500 Received: from atopmp01.corp.sprint.com (atopmp01 [144.224.200.50]) by kcopmp03.corp.sprint.com with ESMTP (8.7.6/8.7.3) id NAA13840 for ; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 13:47:44 -0500 (CDT) From: dan early Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by atopmp01.corp.sprint.com with SMTP (8.7.6/8.7.3) id OAA05875 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 31 Jul 1998 14:44:37 -0400 (EDT) X-OpenMail-Hops: 1 Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 13:07:38 -0500 Message-Id: Subject: SCSI bus question TO: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="openmail-part-03378821-00000001" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --openmail-part-03378821-00000001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; name="BDY.RTF" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="BDY.RTF" I have run into (sorry - another) problem in trying to get a full-featured version of Free BSD up & running. Before you reach hasty conclusions, I am a regular UNIX adminer. I have installed Solarix, Irix, Linux and probably a few other flavors over the past few years. I experimented with Linux until I got tired of things that sort of worked, maybe. A friend got me interested in BSD & I got the CD distribution. I built an SMP dual Pentium II 266Mhz system with an onboard Adaptec SCSI controller, 128 Meg memory and a Quantum Fireball 6.4 Gig Ultra-wide SCSI drive. This has the 50 pin wide flat cable. A cd drive is also chained on the bus. This did cost a few bucks & I've been anxiously trying to get this installed over the past week. After getting past several h/w config. problems, now BSD will not see the Quantum drive. I've been looking forward to experimenting with the BSD SMP kernal. On the Adaptec SCSI bios utility, the drive shows up as device 0 on channel A. The CD drive (a Toshiba SCSI 32X thing) is device 4. The place where I bought this stuff put DOS on the drive to show me that the drive was out there. I did a low level format on the drive through the SCSI bios utility, so the computer sees the drive. When I start the BSD installation from CD, it sees no drives. Help! I've invested a considerable amount of time & money in this thing, and I really want to get it going. Do I have to give up, take the SCSI drive back, and get an IDE drive for this to work? I had a similar problem the last time I installed BSD. It was the first time I ever built a Pentium system, and I unwittingly set the drive up as a secondary master instead of the primary. Do I need a different type of SCSI drive? I'm at a loss. Any suggestions appreciated. Dan Early dan.early@mail.sprint.com or connie@primenet.com --openmail-part-03378821-00000001-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message