From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 22:33:28 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id WAA18822 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 22:33:28 -0700 Received: from PACS01.SUNBELT.NET (pacs01.sunbelt.net [165.166.0.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA18815 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 22:33:27 -0700 Received: from dial-1.r1.scspbg.sunbelt.net by SUNBELT.NET (PMDF V5.0-3 #4800) id <01HTW2FGJ94E8WWH6R@SUNBELT.NET> for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 01:33:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 01:33:25 -0400 (EDT) Date-warning: Date header was inserted by SUNBELT.NET From: tdoyle@sunbelt.net (Edward "Ted" Doyle) Subject: EIDE support in version 2.0.5 and install problems X-Sender: tdoyle@mail.sunbelt.net To: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <01HTW2FHLM408WWH6R@SUNBELT.NET> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3b4 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I recently upgraded from a 386DX-40 with a standard IDE HDD controller to a 486DX4-100 with an Enhanced IDE controller. My old version, FREEBSD 1.1, did not work any more. I understand that, the reason is that version 1.1 does not support Enhanced IDE controllers. Does version 2.0.5 ?? In order to try to find out if EIDE drives are supported, I tried to install a minimal version. While trying to install this new version, I ran in to a purplexing problem. I used a Windows FTP program to get all of the BIN files (bin.aa - bin.ch) and the man pages for version 2.0.5, as well as the root and boot floppy images. I put the binaries and man pages in a DOS partition on my hard drive. The install- ation program starts up and runs fine. When it is installing the BIN files until it gets to 68% completed, I get an error message: 'Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 10240 bytes)' I have tried this several times it always fails at the same point with the same error message. I have 300 megabytes for the BSD slice of the drive. I have played around with the partion sizes. At one time I had 100 meg for the root, 100 meg for the /usr, and 100 meg for the swap area. It still failed at the same point, with the same message. I am only trying to install the 'BIN' files and the manpages. All together about fifty files of 200K each or about 10 megs assumming no compression. Making an educated guess I figured out the file with the problem must be bin.bp, bin.bq or bin.bs. I transferred the files from a different ftp site, but it still fails at the same point with the same error message. So I have two questions: 1) Are Enhanced IDE drives supported in version 2.0.5? 2) What is going wrong with my attempts to install version 2.0.5? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Ted tdoyle@sunbelt.net "The only stupid question is the one that is not asked"