Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 09:18:48 -0500 (EST) From: <stanb@panix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (Free BSD Questions list) Subject: Help _PLEASE_ 3rdrequest frustration == MAX Message-ID: <200012101418.JAA18924@panix6.panix.com>
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I am setting up 4 recycled HP Vectras for use at work. Sure is nice m$ keeps providing me with free computers, as they get more and more resource hungr :-) 3 of them are P75's, and 1 is a P90 The P75'a have BIOS'es D.08.01,D.06.03, and D.08.03. I am isntalling brand new Quantam 20G IDE drives as the only thing on the IDE busses (No CD's). When I look in Setup on all the P75's, I see that they are detecting the disks as 8468MB 16383/63/16 preload -116382 Ther is an XL flag which is on on some, and off on oters. All these machines boot fine after I do an install (from the hard disks). The P90 however I have been unable to get to boot after repeated installs :-( It Has BIOS version GT.07.02. The setup screen here has many more options related to hard disk. First It wan'ts to know if I want to use "Standard" or,"Extended" transfer methi\od. Rhere is a note that "Standard" might need to be used on "UNIX" systems, I think this might mean SCO. This option is gloabal to all the IDE controlers/disks on the machine. On a per disk bassis, the choces are: Multi Sector Transfers: disable/2/4/8/16 LBA mode control enabled/disabled 32 bit I/O Enabled/Disbaled Transfer mode standard/Fast Pio 1,2,3, or 4 Considering it takes about 30 to 45 minutes to do a minimal install to test each choice, and that there are a lareg number of choices :-( I could be here a while (days ?). Can some kkind soul that understands the hardware issues here, pleas educate me? Thanks! At this point in time, i have also tyried the following additional things. 1. Tried to install on a 4G drive in this machine. 2. Tries a 20G from one of the P75's in tis machien. Neither of them worked. The 4G drive when I first put it in, booted NT (don't ask what taht was doing on the drive :)), so I know the machien is OK. I feel relativley certain that if I cna get in touch with some kind soul thatactually understands the boot process, this can be made to work. Please someone make some sugeations. My frustration level is quite high at the moment! -- Stan Brown stanb@panix.com 843-745-3154 Charleston SC -- "Be careful not to step in the Microsoft." -- John Denker To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Stan Brown stanb@panix.com 843-745-3154 Charleston SC -- "Be careful not to step in the Microsoft." -- John Denker To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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