Date: Tue, 1 Oct 96 08:13:21 CDT From: Mike.Nix@amd.com (Michael Nix) To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 2.1.5 install: Fixed Message-ID: <9610011313.AA12308@bianca.amd.com.amd.com>
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Hello,
I have posted a few messages to the net about my problems
instaling FreeBSD 2.1.5. Well, I finally got it to wrok!
Installation from CD-ROM would not work.
Installation from a DOS partition would not work.
A partial installation from floppies worked well.
I got the CD-ROM installation to work by changing the location
of the SCSI controller on the mother-board. The 2940 came from
the store in location 'pci014' (Third from the top). When I
moved it to location 'pci012' (Top slot), all my CRC errors,
checksum errors, and premature end-of-file errors went away.
The details of my hardware are:
AMD 486-133MHz PCI-bus mother-board from Elpina.
Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller.
1.2GB Seagate (Hawk) SCSI disk-drive for FreeBSD.
2.1GB Hewlett-Packard SCSI disk-drive for DOS.
Plextor 4X SCSI CD-ROM drive.
Stealth Video-card.
33600 Baud internal modem from Zoltrix.
Creative Technologies Sound-Blaster-16 card.
Gravis game-port card.
Another thing that I noticed about my hardware as it was delivered
to me is that both hard-drives had the terminator-enable jumper in
place. The CD-ROM drive had termination-resitors installed also.
Since the CD-ROM drive was last on the cable, it should be the
only device with termination, so I disabled the termination on
both hard-drives.
By the way; the original harware configuration never gave me
any trouble in any DOS applications.
I hope that this is of some help to those that are tring to
install FreeBSD and keep getting read-errors.
Sincerely,
Michael Nix
AMD, Austin
October 1, 1996 8:09 a. m.
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