Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 19:23:50 -0500 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net To: cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.1-R installation on an Adaptec 7880-fed SCSI system? Message-ID: <199708120023.TAA08446@nexgen.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from C Matthew Curtin <cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com> of "Thu, 07 Aug 1997 15:01:05 EDT." <199708111848.OAA24392@hawking.research.megasoft.com>
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cmcurtin@research.megasoft.com writes: > > I've got a bit of a problem getting FreeBSD on a new machine here. > We've got a system with two ultrawide SCSI-3 drives hung off of an > Adaptec 7880. I see that there's a driver available for the board, > but it's not on the 2.2.1-R boot disk. > > We can actually newfs the filesystems and get some data copied to the > target disk during the install, but by about 20% or so into the > installation of /bin, the system hangs. Even doing a minimal install, > with the intention of getting it far enough along to build and install > the right driver, then installing the rest of the system doesn't work. Don't think if the 2.2.1 boot disk lacked a driver for the 7880 that you'd be able to do anything with disks attached to it. The Adaptec 2940 family is probably the best supported SCSI card under FreeBSD. I've been using my 7870's a very long time. I see two possibilities as to the cause of your problem. In the early days of the 2.2 branch there were some big changes to the ahc code that introduced problems. Another would be your cabling, or the drives themselves. For now, suggest you download a 2.2.2 boot disk. Install from your CDROM (or are you installing from an ftp'ed image? If so, why 2.2.1?) using the 2.2.2 boot disk. All you have to do is go into the options menu (item 4) and change the release name. Once you have a running system it wouldn't be a bad idea to cvsup (or ftp the CTM's) an up to date 2.2-stable. "make world" is a pretty good way to validate your hardware is working right. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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