Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:44:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Robert Clark <ROBERTC@PII.COM> Cc: "'freebsd-questions'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Advice Needed on SCSI Configuration. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961021184229.4798D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <326BF5AE@smtp>
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On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Robert Clark wrote: > I need advice on how to configure SCSI hardware to run Win95 & FreeBSD > 2.1.0. > > System is a P5-150, with an adaptec 2940 scsi controller. > > Hard disks are > > Seagate (SCSI-2) 1GB at SCSI ID 0, with Win95. > Seagate (SCSI-2) 2.1GB at SCSI ID 1, DOS/Win95. > Seagate (SCSI-2) 2.1GB at SCSI ID 2, FreeBSD. > Connor (SCSI-1) 100MB at SCSI 3, DOS (OLD). > > CDROM is > > Hitachi 4x primary on first IDE channel, then on slave on first IDE > channel. (Not seen by BIOS.) Any reason you couldn't trade this in and go with a SCSI CDROM? > Questions: > > Running view, and then inst_ide from the FreeBSD 2.1.0 disk, doesn't > find my IDE CDROM drive. The kernel probe sequence does find it, but the > install program doesn't. Is the Hitachi 4x supported? If so, where should > it be on the IDE bus? (IDE-1, IDE-2, Primary, Slave?) (I have no IDE hard > disk, only CDROM.) You can't set the cdrom slave since it has nothing to master it. :( If it's not detected in single mode then it ain't gonna work. > Does booting FreeBSD from a drive with a SCSI ID larger than zero, > require a kernel rebuild? I seem to remember an entry in the last kernel I > rebuilt, spelling out the boot drive's ID. FreeBSD doesn't give a hoot. You can specify which disk the kernel is on if it gets confused (spits out "can't mount root") but shouldn't be necessary in most cases. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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