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To: ejon@ll.mit.edu (Eric `two cats' Jones)
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Subject: Re: failed install 
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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 1995 21:41:05 -0700
From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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>Folks,
>	Hopefully this is the place for patient answers to dopey questions,
>because I'm stymied pretty early in the process.  Hope you can help.
>
>I'm trying to install the March snapshot of FreeBSD.  The configuration is:
>
>486DX50 w/EISA
>Adaptec (yuck) 2740 EISA/SCSI controller
>Digital 3.5" drive (1 GB), FDISK'ed with 1 400MB partition under DOS
>3COM Etherlink III ethernet card
>16 MB RAM
>2 serial 1 parallel 2 floppy
>ATI Mach-based video
>
>I can boot the boot floppy, see that it's recognized most of the equipment,
>read all the nice README's, and start the installation.  But, in the
>Diskspace editor, when I try to (F)disk (dutifully typing 0 as the drive
>I desire), I get 5 copies of the error "ahc1: Queue Full", then an abort
>dialog informing me that it failed to read the Master Boot Record.
>Not much for someone who doesn't know the ins and outs of the process 
>to go on. Maybe someone there can enlighten me?  
>	Thanks in advance for your time.
>
>Eric

The Adaptec driver on the 322 SNAP did not handle the tagged queue full
condition correctly (as you noticed).  The current driver handles this
better, but doesn't the final fix on the matter.  I'll compile up a 
boot floppy for you that has a patched driver.
--
Justin T. Gibbs
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