Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 17:21:08 -0500 From: whitney@eng.morgan.edu To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990105172108.007ef880@eng.morgan.edu>
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>Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 11:58:19 -0800 (PST) >From: Brett Neely <support@cdrom.com> >To: whitney@eng.morgan.edu >Subject: Re: your mail > > >Dear sir, > >The date on this product is June 1997. In the past eighteen months, >FreeBSD has gone through six more releases and many improvements, bug >fixes, optimizations, security fixes, enhancements, user interface fixes, >and hardware support fixes. I strongly suggest you obtain the latest >version (2.2.8) to ensure the best currently available FreeBSD system. > >However, if you still are seeking help with FreeBSD 2.2.2, you may send an >email to questions@freebsd.org for assistance. > >> Hello - >> >> I have FreeBSD 2.2.2 on CD Rom that I am just getting around to installing >> for the first time. I have a Gateway with an ASTORIA Mother board, a 333 >> MHZ Pentium II processor, 64 MB Ram, an ATI AGP video card, 1.44 Mb floppy, >> a 100 Mb Zip drive, two 9-Gb Seagate ST19101W SCSI hard drives, a Toshiba >> XM-6302B CD-Rom. >> >> >> I am currently trying to do the installation, booting off of floppy, which >> works ok. As it goes down through the sequence it gets to >> >> AHC0 <adaptex 2940 Untra SCSI host adapter> REV1 int a irq10 on PCI 0:14 >> AHC0: AIC 7880 Wide Channel SCSI id=7, 16SCB's >> AHC0 waiting for SCSI devices to settle >> AHC0:0:0) Parity error during Message-out phase >> AHC0:Board is not responding >> >> The sequence then continues with >> SCB 0x0 through SCB 0xF with basically the same message after each SCB; >> i.e., 'Time out while recovery in progress' >> CMD Fail >> >> Then, the sequence gets stuck (or seems to get stuck; I waited for about >> 15-20 minutes) on 'Probing for devices on ISA bus' >> >> Please help. >> Thanks. >> >> Jim Whitney > > Brett Neely > Technical Support Staff > Walnut Creek CDROM > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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