From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 3 16:58:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA27189 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 16:58:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from always.got.net (root@gotnet.znet.net [207.167.86.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA27077; Sun, 3 May 1998 16:58:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dksprite@got.net) Received: from spriteboi (dksprite@SantaCruz-x2-3-94.got.net [209.66.100.94]) by always.got.net (8.8.8/8.8.7/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id QAA32285; Sun, 3 May 1998 16:57:47 -0700 Message-ID: <354D0537.526F@got.net> Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 17:00:55 -0700 From: kris zentner Reply-To: dksprite@got.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG CC: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 2.2.6 sysinstall probe problems with ST31621A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After weeks of effort trying to get FreeBSD 2.2.6 sysinstall to probe my Seagate (aka conner) drive I've found that there seems to be a problem with the sysinstall probing the drive (model number CFS1621A or ST31621A). The the system is as follows: Pentium 166 w/ 32mb ram, awe64 soundcard, hercules stingray 128, Adaptec AHA-1520 scsi controller (running a zip drive) 4.1gig Fujitsu MPA3043AT on primary master 1.6gig Seagate (formerly Conner) ST3121A on primary slave Sony CDU55E 2x CD-ROM on secondary master What seems to happen is that the sysinstall probe will seem to probe the disk(s) during the "probing devices, please wait..." screen and then after about 5 mins either hang (if that drive is connected) or continue. The 2.2.5 sysinstall has no problem and seems to spend less than a second on a the "probing devices, please wait..." screen finding any drive I attach. I've tried putting the drive in master, slave, and alone. Any configuration I've thought of and tried have had the same result. Win95/DOS seems to run fine on the drive. I'm wondering if there's any fix or solution for this and if the problem has been mentioned before. Please respond to kzentner@got.net. Thanks! -Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message