From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 10 17:42:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.safety.net (biffle-unassigned1.nmia.com [207.66.106.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 222BD154A3 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:42:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from les@safety.net) Received: (from les@localhost) by ns2.safety.net (8.8.7/8.8.8) id RAA06620 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:42:51 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from les) From: Les Biffle Message-Id: <199908110042.RAA06620@ns2.safety.net> Subject: AST Manhattan and FreeBSD 3.x To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:42:51 -0700 (MST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I have an AST Manhattan with embedded Symbios 53C810 fast narrow SCSI controllers and a pair of 2GB Seagates, all stock from AST. I can load FreeBSD 2.2.8 without problem, but 3.1 and 3.2 seem unable to write to the drives after the files systems are built, but before they are loaded. I get no errors during the newfs steps, or during an fsck after the newfs is done, but when the install program begins "extracting /bin" from the SCSI CD onto the drives, I get a write failure on 3.1 (wrote -1 bytes of 1024) and a page fault panic in 3.2. At least the 3.1 lets me keep playing ;-) The 3.2 immediately (and unsuccessfully) tries to sync the disks and finally reboots. Perhaps a CAM issue? For those that aren't familiar with the Manhattan, it's an EISA machine with 2 PCI slots and 6 EISA/ISA slots. The 53C810's are in the PCI universe. The network card is a 3COM 3C579-TP EISA. Everything works just dandy with 2.2.8, but I would prefer to be in an elf world. Thanks in advance, -Les -- Les Biffle Community Service... Just Say NO! (480) 585-4099 les@safety.net http://www.les.safety.net/ Network Safety Corp., 5831 E. Dynamite Blvd., Cave Creek, AZ 85331 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message