Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 21:16:06 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Help for the weary? (SCSI CDROM issues) Message-ID: <199911160216.VAA00423@lakes.dignus.com>
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Perhaps this should go to -questions; I'm not sure. I'm trying to install 3.3-RELEASE on a new system I'm putting together. I've got a SONY CRX140S (on sale at CompUSA last week) - it's supposed to be a nice SCSI CD-RW. I'm putting this on an ASUS P2B-DS; which has an on-board Adaptec AIX-7890 Ultra2 SCSI. Ok - that's all well and good. And, in fact, the CD-ROM boots up the kernel just great! I partition/label the disk, etc... no problems. Then, it comes time to do the installation and... I hop over to VTY-2 to see what's going on and I see a lot of cpio messages about "Junk" being skipped (instead of the expected file names scrolling by.) I take this to mean that I'm not reading the CDROM correctly. I tested the CD-ROM on an existing aha-2940 system - works great. This system has SCSI connections on board: 1) 68-pin Wide SCSI connector 2) 50-pin Narrow SCSI connector 3) 68-pin Ultra2 SCSI connector Of course - the 50-pin is what's running to the CD-ROM, with connector #1 (68-pin Wide) running to the SCSI disk. That's all the SCSI connections I've got... I've tried just about every permutation of SCSI termination I can... So - my question to the -stable list: 1) Has anyone installed 3.3-RELEASE on this motherboard (the doc is dated July, 1999 - so it may be too new.) 2) Is there something `funky' about the SCSI connectors I need to be aware of - for instance, you can't have both a wide and narrow bus running at once, or something disappointing like that. - Thanks! - - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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