From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 9 11:53:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11559 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 11:53:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11488 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 11:52:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA04046; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 11:52:39 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802091952.LAA04046@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: kmitch@cslab.vt.edu cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Zip/CD and Stable/Current In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 09 Feb 1998 08:58:04 EST." <199802091358.IAA14080@labrador.cslab.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 11:52:38 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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