From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 3 11:07:19 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id LAA26643 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Mar 1995 11:07:19 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA26634 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 1995 11:07:18 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA29281; Fri, 3 Mar 1995 11:02:12 -0800 Message-Id: <199503031902.LAA29281@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: barkovich@uclac1.chem.ucla.edu cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: installation In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Mar 1995 23:07:41 PST." <9503030708.AA10182@argon.chem.ucla.edu> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 1995 11:02:12 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I am trying to install FreeBSD 2.0 for Intel-based PCs and ran into a >problem. My CD-ROM drive is attached to a Pro Audio Spectrum 16 sound >card. My disk controller is an Adaptec 2842. When I tried to install >FreeBSD from CD-ROM, the installation program cound not find my CD-ROM >drive. Upon further inspection, I noticed the following message in the >kernel "pas0 not probed due to i/o address conflict with ahc0 at 0x1f88". >For ahc0 -- "ahc0 at 0x1000 - 0x1fff irq 11 on eisa". I could not >manage to get FreeBSD to recognize my CD-ROM drive without disabling >my disk controller (ahc0) which caused the panic message and reboot. If >there is any solution to this I would appreciate if you could tell me. >The only solution I can think of is to hook the CD-ROM directly to my >Adaptec controller, but I would prefer other options as I would have to >switch the SCSI cable any time I switched from DOS to BSD because I have >programs already set for the previous configuration. Sorry about going >off on this. I'd appreciate any help...Thanks... > > Robert Barkovich > barkovich@uclach.chem.ucla.edu You should configure your 2842 to sit at a different address. You have a choice of 0x1000 - 0x8000 (I believe) setable via jumpers on the card. -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================