From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 1 20:43:25 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA17930 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 May 1995 20:43:25 -0700 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA17922 for ; Mon, 1 May 1995 20:43:23 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA09960; Mon, 1 May 1995 20:43:15 -0700 Message-Id: <199505020343.UAA09960@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Bart Reagan cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Freebsd & NEC cdrom In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 May 1995 16:32:20 PDT." Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 20:43:14 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I recently obtained Freebsd 2.0 and am having some difficulty. Hopefully some >light can be >shed. What version of FreeBSD? 2.0R? The driver for your SCSi adaptor has changed much since that release. I would suggest either downloading the upcomming 2.0.5 Release (availible later this week if all goes well), or getting the next CDROM release from Walnut Creek CDROM. >I have a 486DX4/100 w/24mb ram , 2 scsi hard drives a Wangtek 5525 tape and an > NEC >intersect cdr84 cd rom. The scsi controller is an Adaptec 2842. My problem is >the cd rom will >lock up the scsi bus during access. This is an intermittent ( sort of) problem >. I have yet to be able >to complete the entire install ( including XFree86-3.1). When the bus locks on >ly a hard reset >will fix the problem. The cd works fine on my Windows NT partition. Ihave tri >ed it with the >wangtek both in and out of the configuration, no luck. > >The scsi id's are 0. DEC scsi drive 535mb > 1. Quantum 1gb > 2. none > 3. none > 4. none > 5. Wangtek (when installed) > 6. NEC Cdrom >I used all default parameters during the install. > >Thank you in advance for the support. > bart > > -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================