Date: Tue, 1 Oct 96 08:13:21 CDT From: Mike.Nix@amd.com (Michael Nix) To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 2.1.5 install: Fixed Message-ID: <9610011313.AA12308@bianca.amd.com.amd.com>
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Hello, I have posted a few messages to the net about my problems instaling FreeBSD 2.1.5. Well, I finally got it to wrok! Installation from CD-ROM would not work. Installation from a DOS partition would not work. A partial installation from floppies worked well. I got the CD-ROM installation to work by changing the location of the SCSI controller on the mother-board. The 2940 came from the store in location 'pci014' (Third from the top). When I moved it to location 'pci012' (Top slot), all my CRC errors, checksum errors, and premature end-of-file errors went away. The details of my hardware are: AMD 486-133MHz PCI-bus mother-board from Elpina. Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller. 1.2GB Seagate (Hawk) SCSI disk-drive for FreeBSD. 2.1GB Hewlett-Packard SCSI disk-drive for DOS. Plextor 4X SCSI CD-ROM drive. Stealth Video-card. 33600 Baud internal modem from Zoltrix. Creative Technologies Sound-Blaster-16 card. Gravis game-port card. Another thing that I noticed about my hardware as it was delivered to me is that both hard-drives had the terminator-enable jumper in place. The CD-ROM drive had termination-resitors installed also. Since the CD-ROM drive was last on the cable, it should be the only device with termination, so I disabled the termination on both hard-drives. By the way; the original harware configuration never gave me any trouble in any DOS applications. I hope that this is of some help to those that are tring to install FreeBSD and keep getting read-errors. Sincerely, Michael Nix AMD, Austin October 1, 1996 8:09 a. m.
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