Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 11:42:44 -0700 From: Eric.Vanbezooijen@Eng.Sun.COM (Eric van Bezooijen) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD install failure on ASUS/NCR PCI system Message-ID: <9505221842.AA02695@logrus.Eng.Sun.COM>
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I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a ASUS 90 Mhz Pentium system (16 Mb RAM, 512 Kb cache), with a NCR PCI scsi card (53c810 based). I have two drives, a Quantum 1.0 Gb and a Quantum 4.3 Gb drive. My 1.0 Gb drive has 1 DOS partition (the whole drive). I wanted to set up a small (128 Mb) partition on the 4.3 Gb drive for DOS, and install FreeBSD on the rest of the 4.3 Gb drive. However, I cannot get FreeBSD to boot up and recognize my SCSI disks. When the boot sequence is setting up devices, I get the following error: Changing root device to fd0c sd0(ncr0:0:0); assertion "cp == np->header.cp" failed: file "../../i386/pci/ncr.c", line 5172 ncr0 targ 0?: ERROR (80:100:29) (8/13)@ 360cc:e000000). ncr0: restart (fatal error) ncr0: aborting job... After a while I get: DOS partition I/O error In the install menu, neither of my drives is listed. If I disconnect my 4.3 Gb drive, FreeBSD recognises my 1.0 Gb drive fine, and I get no errors at all. I tried formatting the entire 4.3 Gb drive as 1 DOS partition, I tried creating a 128 Mb DOS partition. I also tried swapping the drives in the SCSI chain, I tried experimenting with different SCSI termination schemes (I still haven't figured out if the "TER" jumper on the drives means SCSI termination, and if it does, whether or not jumpering it means disabling or enabling SCSI termination). I tried using the 1 Gb drive as target 0, and the 4.3 Gb as target 1, and vice-versa. Any clues ? I really want to make FreeBSD work! Is my hard drive too large (4.3 Gb) ? -Eric "I'm a smarty everyday!"- Beanie the Cerebrally-challenged bison, Animaniacs Eric van Bezooijen | "Faboo!"- Wakko Warner, Animaniacs [Warlord *THIS*] eric@csua.berkeley.edu | "Oh joy of Joys!"- Stimpson J. Cat, Ren & Stimpy eric.vanbezooijen@sun.com | "Spoon!"- The Tick [Pixies and Talking Heads rule!]
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