From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 14 18:21:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA27851 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 18:21:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from zoom.bga.com (root@zoom.realtime.net [205.238.128.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id SAA27839 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 18:20:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from apm1-91.realtime.net (apm1-91.realtime.net [205.238.146.91]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA13825 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 1997 20:20:30 -0600 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 20:20:30 -0600 Message-Id: <2.2.16.19970114201927.380f672a@bga.com> X-Sender: n5ptn@bga.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@freebsd.org From: Michael Lay Subject: More on IDE Problem Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well, I have tried to install on two different 400Mg HD's now with no luck. One was a Conner and the other was a Western Digital. I traded out the IDE CD-ROM for a SCSI CD-ROM. It is now a tiny bit more consistent about where it fails. It completes the NEWFS and starts to unpack data. It then fails saying it wrote -1 bytes. It asks if I want to try again. Even if I say yes, it traps a fatal error and starts to re-boot the system. Could someone who has actually installed this on a system with IDE HD's let me in on the secret??!! Michael Lay N5PTN Pflugerville, Texas