From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 23 20:42:33 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E3A16A408 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:42:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reevejd@mchsi.com) Received: from sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91.asp.att.net [204.127.203.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7100413C448 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:42:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from reevejd@mchsi.com) Received: from gateway (unknown[12.206.242.117]) by sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91) with SMTP id <20070123203230m9100nrco0e>; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:32:30 +0000 Message-ID: <001f01c73f2d$9a592480$75f2ce0c@GATEWAY> From: "John D. Reeve" To: Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:32:23 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Subject: SCSI not found during install - help! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:42:33 -0000 Hello All, I'm trying to install FreeBSD on a system consisting of an Ampro Littleboard 486 with 32 Mb ram, a built-in Adaptec 6360 SCSI controller, an 18.2 Gb Quantum Atlas III SCSI drive (50 pin narrow), a 256 Mb IDE flash drive containing MS-DOS, and an IDE CD drive. I want FreeBSD to take over the entire SCSI drive. The SCSI drive has been low-level formatted using the software that came with the Ampro for the Adaptec controller. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.1 using three floppies (boot, kernel 1, kernel 2) and CD's containing the rest of the system. Here is the problem. After booting with the floppies and getting to the point where I'm supposed to select the drive for FreeBSD, the install program doesn't see the SCSI drive. It does see the IDE flash drive. The odd thing is that under MS-DOS, the fdisk program finds the SCSI drive and allows me to partition it, at least a 230 Mb piece of it. I can format this piece for DOS and copy files to it, so the drive does seem to be working. I have the BIOS configured to see the SCSI as the second hard drive in the system. According to the documentation with the Ampro, the BIOS can supposedly handle drives of this size or larger. Thanks for any help! Cheers, John R.