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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
From: Stephen Couchman <scouch@io.org>
Subject: Problem partitioning SCSI disk and creating filesystems
Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
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Thanks for your help so far!

While I am waiting for Walnut Cove to send me FreeBSD 2.1.0, I have
downloaded the 2.1.0 install disk from www.freebsd.org to make sure that my
hardware is recognized.

After partitioning the hard disk (a small MS-DOS partition, and the rest for
FreeBSD)  and writing the info to disk, I ran into a problem labelling the
partitions within the FreeBSD partition.

After requesting that the install program allocate the space for the
filesystems using defaults, I tried to write the info to my hard disk.

The following errors came up:

1. Unable to swap to /dev/sd0s2b (this is/will be the swap filesystem)

2. Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/rds0a

Should I be attempting to write the filesystems at this point?

Should I be waiting until a later point, i.e. after I have selected the
installation media)?

I can't reproceed past setting up the disks in any case, but I would like to
be ready with working hardware once the CD ROM arrives.

Thanks -- Stephen

At 04:01 PM 12/17/95 +1030, Michael Smith wrote:
>Stephen Couchman stands accused of saying:
>> 
>> I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 from a Walnut Cove CD.  When I try to
>> partition my hard disk, I am told that the system cannot find it.
>
>Erosion is a wonderful thing, is it not?
>
>> I am using an Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller with a Fujitsu SCSI disk drive
>> attached.  This drive is found without a problem by MS-DOS, but not by BSD.
>
>You are using an Adaptec 2940 "Ultra" which has a different PCI signature to 
>the original 2940, and which is _not_ supported by FreeBSD 2.0.5.  You will 
>need to use WC's NQA exchange policy to get a copy of 2.1.
>
>> Stephen Couchman    | scouch@io.org
>
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