From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 15 18:16:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.vnet.net (smtp1.vnet.net [166.82.1.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7F0D14E1E for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 18:16:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp1.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA02986 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 21:16:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA13898 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 21:16:06 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.3/8.6.9) id VAA00423 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 21:16:06 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 21:16:06 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199911160216.VAA00423@lakes.dignus.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Help for the weary? (SCSI CDROM issues) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Perhaps this should go to -questions; I'm not sure. I'm trying to install 3.3-RELEASE on a new system I'm putting together. I've got a SONY CRX140S (on sale at CompUSA last week) - it's supposed to be a nice SCSI CD-RW. I'm putting this on an ASUS P2B-DS; which has an on-board Adaptec AIX-7890 Ultra2 SCSI. Ok - that's all well and good. And, in fact, the CD-ROM boots up the kernel just great! I partition/label the disk, etc... no problems. Then, it comes time to do the installation and... I hop over to VTY-2 to see what's going on and I see a lot of cpio messages about "Junk" being skipped (instead of the expected file names scrolling by.) I take this to mean that I'm not reading the CDROM correctly. I tested the CD-ROM on an existing aha-2940 system - works great. This system has SCSI connections on board: 1) 68-pin Wide SCSI connector 2) 50-pin Narrow SCSI connector 3) 68-pin Ultra2 SCSI connector Of course - the 50-pin is what's running to the CD-ROM, with connector #1 (68-pin Wide) running to the SCSI disk. That's all the SCSI connections I've got... I've tried just about every permutation of SCSI termination I can... So - my question to the -stable list: 1) Has anyone installed 3.3-RELEASE on this motherboard (the doc is dated July, 1999 - so it may be too new.) 2) Is there something `funky' about the SCSI connectors I need to be aware of - for instance, you can't have both a wide and narrow bus running at once, or something disappointing like that. - Thanks! - - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message