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Date:      Mon, 16 Feb 1998 19:21:47 -0500
From:      Keith Pitcher <kpitcher@weirdness.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Problems with install and seagate HD
Message-ID:  <34E8D81B.1C27124F@weirdness.com>

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I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.5-release and it appears that my HD is
acting up. I am using an adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI card, scsi id 0 is my
CDROM, scsi ID 1 is the HD. It's a seagate Hawk 4XL 4.55 Gig HD,
ST34555N/W.It's finding both devices fine. I go through the novice
install and dedicate the entire disk to freeBSD. But during the install
it first gives an error that swap can not be used, then I get "panic:
Page fault" followed by the numbers 16 16 16 ..., or 256 256 256 ... and
it auto-reboots. Looking through some of the errors while it tries to
install, I get such things as the disk != slice.

I tried changing the geometry of the drive, but freeBSD did not like the
right values (6311/8/176)
I tried installing a few times, and the values it would automatically
select for the geometry varied each time.

Oh, I bought two systems exactly the same, and it is happening on both
systems, so I doubt it's a bad HD.


Any idea what I should try next?

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Keith Pitcher                           kpitcher@weirdness.com
http://www.andrews.edu/~keithp          ICQ ID : 766858

"I want, for once and for all, not to know many things. Wisdom sets
limits to knowledge too."       -Nietzsche
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