Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 11:35:12 -0800 (PST) From: "Brant Katkansky" <brantk@gatekeeper.atlas.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: bmk@dtr.com Subject: 2.1R sysinstall "No disks found" AHA2740 Message-ID: <9602201935.AA00255@billthecat.atlas.com.>
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I'm attempting to install 2.1.0-RELEASE on an ex-Solaris x86 machine. The machine in question is an "ALR Revolution Q-SMP" dual 90Mhz Pentium with an AHA2740 EISA host adapter. (Yes, I know that the second proc won't be supported.) Sysinstall reports "No disks found" when I select Partition from the sysinstall menu. (The system has five Conner CFP1060W 1.0GB disks). I don't have the exact kernel messages, but I can paraphrase them: ahc1: 274x Wide Channel, SCSI id=7 aic7770 >= Rev E 4 SCBS The SCSI disks are seen by the probe, but show up as 'type 0 fixed SCSI 7'. No, that is not a typo. :) Also, they are seen as 5376MB (11010051 512 byte sectors) 5376 cyl, with standard 32/64 Adaptec head/sector translation. Looks like the cylinder count is hosed. I also saw a message "BIOS Basemem (640K) != RTC Basemem (639K)". I'm not positive that's the exact error, but it's close. Dunno if that's a red herring or not. Unfortunately, I our lab inherited this machine without proper EISA config diskettes, so I haven't been able to poke around the configuration yet. Also, I'm not sure exactly what the ethernet adapter is. I'm pretty sure it's made by SMC, and it's an EISA card dual channel 10Mb/s (BNC). Any ideas on what it might be and whether or not it's supported? I haven't actually looked at the card, and have zero documentation. It used the smce driver under Solaris. -- Brant Katkansky (brantk@atlas.com) Systems Test Engineer, ADC
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