Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 11:52:38 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: kmitch@cslab.vt.edu Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Zip/CD and Stable/Current Message-ID: <199802091952.LAA04046@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Feb 1998 08:58:04 EST." <199802091358.IAA14080@labrador.cslab.vt.edu>
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> > I just received a brand new gateway PC that I need to install FreeBSD on. > This PC has an SM9432TX card in it, so I was trying to install stable > and current from 2/8/98 and both lock up the machine right before sysinstall > comes up (it even displays the message that it is starting sysinstall). > > The PC itself is a Gateway model 3110 which is a Pentium II 233 machine > with both a zip and a CDrom drive on the secondary IDE channel. If I > disable the secondary IDE channel, then it will boot. 2.2.5 boots fine, but > tries to put the zip drive on the CD driver and the end result is both > the zip and the cdrom drive are inaccessible. > > It appears that something has changed in the IDE stuff that could be > responsible for this lockup. Has anyone else seen this?? Is the Zip the slave on the secondary IDE channel? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message
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