From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jun 28 16:55:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail.drexel.edu (mail.drexel.edu [129.25.3.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE97437BA96 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:55:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lint@drexel.edu) Received: from n1-10-245.dhcp.drexel.edu (n1-10-245.dhcp.drexel.edu [129.25.10.245]) by mail.drexel.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2000.05.17.04.13.p6) with ESMTP id <0FWW001I62GFX0@mail.drexel.edu> for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 19:55:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 19:55:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam Staudt Subject: Re: installing woes: 4.0-R on dell precision workstation 620 In-reply-to: X-Sender: lint@lyra To: Greg Scott Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org a small update: after a bit of poking around, it happens that this machine has two identical quantum 17gb drives, which would account for the two scsi devices. it appears that doing that low-level format to the first drive (scsi id 0) hosed some things, so at the moment i am in the process of restoring a new array via the config utility that dell shipped with the machine. so after this we should be in a factory-released state, with the exception of NT not being installed. i sincerely apologize for not having my facts straight in the first place. i realize that this is a fundamental error. thank you for your help, and if the issue recurs, updates will be forthcoming. adam On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Greg Scott wrote: > > 'low-level format' in this case means the format that you do from inside > > adaptec's scsiselect utility... the drive does show up in the adaptec scsi > > bios, it shows up as device #0 and device #1 ... this is another thing i > > wonder about, in the scsiselect utility, it shows the tape drive as id #6, > > the host adapter as id #7, and the hard disk (17GB) on id #0 and #1, as > > identical entries... is this odd, or is this ok? > > That would not be normal. Check the jumper settings of the drive to make > sure all it set up right. > > What drive is it? > > > > Closed July 3rd for the Canada Day long weekend. > -- > Greg Scott | Asimware Innovations Inc. > Network Administrator | 600 Upper Wellington St, Unit #D > Website Co-Ordinator | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L9A 3P9 > greg.scott@asimware.com | Phone: (905)575-1042 > | Fax: (905)575-0095 > | WWW: http://www.asimware.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message