From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 23 14:14:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.redshift.com (mail.redshift.com [209.54.200.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46EB014BD2 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:14:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yramin@redshift.com) Received: from redshift.com (pm5-132.mry.redshift.com [207.204.201.132]) by mail.redshift.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA23572 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:14:19 -0800 Message-ID: <36F811F7.C8BFA740@redshift.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:13:11 -0800 From: Yann Ramin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installation Problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm having a small installation problem with FreeBSD on a server system. The system will boot both floppies fine, but when it comes to either copying files to the hard disk (from a DOS partition or the Internet) it hangs after it copies 1024 bytes. At times it even hangs when creating the file systems (especialy the root file system). I have tried numerous drive geometry settings, as well as several different installation methods, different label/slice settings, and even low-leveling the drive, with no luck. Specs of the system: 1 Pentium 166 on an SMP capable board. 2 Onoard Adaptec AIC-7870 fast-wide SCSI-2 controllers One 2GB IBM Tandem SCSI-2 drive, on the second controller, ID 4 8MB of Parity RAM I feel this is a controller problem, as I saw no support for a 7870 controller in the hardware list, but the erratic behavior is strange, freezing in various points. Any help would be appreciated :) Yann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message