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Date:      Wed, 15 May 96 18:03:55 -0600
From:      bosankog@execpc.com
To:        questions@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   SCSI disk installation problem
Message-ID:  <9605160120.AA0024@chiron.execpc.com>

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I have a 1 gig IDE dedicated to OS/2.  I recently added an Adaptec 
1542 controller and a 1.3 gig Quantum drive and wanted to dedicate 
this to UNIX.  The installer correctly identified the two disks.  
When I selected the scsi drive, freebsd FDISK cam up just fine, but 
it seemed unable to read the partition table, as no drive 
information was displayed.  Also, it seemed unaware that the disk
parameters were not displayed.  When I executed a command, the 
system crashed.

I tried a lot of different things eveb though this was time 
consuming do to having to select drivers every time because of my 
ATI video board.

Finally, I used OS/2 and LINUX FDISKs to configure the disk and 
tryed again, but to no avail. 

I installed LINUX so that I would have something to use, and the 
installation went well and without incident.  I would like to use 
BSD on my system (NextGen P-90 w/32 megs), but could well wait till 
the next release if I was fairly certain of being able to install.

Thank you for your attention. 

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