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From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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Subject: adding a new drive ..
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Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 03:07:02 +1100 (EST)
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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