Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 13:42:53 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: kav@ihlpf.att.com (Kurt A Vangsness +1 708 713 1261) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, FreeBSD-questions@freefall.freebsd.org, mpf@marconi.att.com Subject: Re: Problems installing 2.1 CDROM Message-ID: <199601310312.NAA17148@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9601310008.AA00911@ig4.att.att.com> from "Kurt A Vangsness %2B1 708 713 1261" at Jan 30, 96 11:20:00 am
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Kurt A Vangsness +1 708 713 1261 stands accused of saying: > > Michael, > Thanks for the response. Yes, we had the CD in when we booted the > system (the CD installation boots right off the CD from DOS). Also, we did > the W command in the slice/partition editors and also tried waiting (as > recommended by the install program) until later for the final "commit". > I am suspicious that the problem may be related to the 2940 SCSI controller > driver. I saw some posts on netnews regarding some buggy behavior in the > driver. Have you heard anything about this? Yeah, it can give you serious grief. If at all possible, try installing using another SCSI controller (if you have, say, a 1542 lying around). Personally, I use the NCR-based controllers (there's an install going next to me as I speak...), and these are great. The 2940 problems are really patchy; I had a client with two machines sid by side, one crapping out, one running perfectly, the only difference being the disks (the stayer was a 9G seagate, the crasher was a 1G seagate...). > Kurt Vangsness -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai [[
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