From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 16 17:39:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA20536 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 1996 17:39:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA20531 for ; Thu, 16 May 1996 17:39:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from LOCALHOST (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA28754; Thu, 16 May 1996 17:43:07 -0700 Message-Id: <199605170043.RAA28754@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu: Host LOCALHOST didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: bosankog@execpc.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI disk installation problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 May 1996 18:03:55 MDT." <9605160120.AA0024@chiron.execpc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 17:43:07 -0700 From: Doug White Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. That's not nice. :-( Was the disk totally blank? You might try putting a small DOS partition on the Quantum and installing FreeBSD over it (remove it in FDISK). That seems to be the solve-all of disk problems. :-) See if you can catch the boot messages scrolling by and make sure your Quantum is being probed properly. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major