Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 03:07:02 +1100 (EST) From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: adding a new drive .. Message-ID: <199603151607.DAA25382@asstdc.scgt.oz.au>
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After the tragedies of last week, I thought it best to ask here .. there is an apparent bug lurking .. I have a shiny new 4 gig Quantum Atlas (XP34300). I want to add it to a -stable system which already has two other SCSI devices. Having been through the exercise of recovering a clobbered partition table (courtesy of a nasty bug in the 2.1R install disk :-(), I now find that when I try to set up a partition table on another machine (with no other attached drives :-)), it refuses to write the partition table .. it collapses with an I/O error. I've formatted the drive twice and verified it. I've used a DOS disk to install a dummy partition table with no problem yet the BSD install disk hangs with the HD light on. The 2.0.5 installation disk does the same thing. Is this (possibly) related to the fact that the SCSI controller is an Adaptec 1542 or is something else wrong ? I currently have a pricey door-stop :-( michael
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