From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue May 5 20:57:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA23881 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 20:57:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA23854 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 20:57:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA09861; Tue, 5 May 1998 20:57:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 20:57:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Mike Smith cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 sysinstall probe problems with ST31621A In-Reply-To: <199805052157.OAA00535@antipodes.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org limiting discussion to -hardware. > Just to clarify, it's not Sysinstall probing the drive (as such). What > happens is that sysinstall goes looking for stuff that the kernel has > found. The only way it can do this is by trying to open everything > that might exist and remembering which ones work. It's a pathetic > "poor brother" to DEVFS. indeed ... > Is the drive itself locking up? Are you certain that the system is > locked? Have you tried putting a disk in the Zip? It's possible that > the Zip is just timing out very slowly. > > Well, start pulling disks until it works. I'd start with the Zip drive; > > sysinstall does NOT like them. > > Sysinstall doesn't care one way or the other. The ATAPI code in the > FreeBSD kernel is a little grubby, and the ATAPI Zip shows up a few > problems with it. SCSI Zip drives work just fine. Well, then, I guess we know where to start. :-/ I know that the 'pull the Zip' advice has helped many people, so there is certainly a problem there. Why isn't wfd0 in the boot floppy kernel? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message