From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 21 09:00:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA21499 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 09:00:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gatekeeper.tseinc.com (gatekeeper.tseinc.com [209.83.134.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA21482 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 09:00:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jlwest@tseinc.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by gatekeeper.tseinc.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA27491 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:00:05 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.tseinc.com: nobody set sender to using -f Received: from ws2.tse.com(192.168.1.12) by gatekeeper.tseinc.com via smap (V1.3) id sma027480; Fri Nov 21 10:59:34 1997 From: "Jay L. West" To: Subject: HELP! Install woes on ESDI drive. Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:05:50 -0600 Message-ID: <01bcf69f$b7e36fa0$0c01a8c0@ws2.tse.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm installing FreeBSD 2.2.5 Release. Made the boot floppy and used it to install a machine from CD-ROM distribution. All went fine, so I know the boot floppy is ok. Now, I'm trying to install via ftp onto a different machine with the following configuration: Dell 386/DX33. 8mb Ram. Two NE2000 compatible ethernet cards. Adaptec 2322D ESDI disk/floppy controller. Maxtor ESDI XT-4380E hard drive. During initial installation, I get the message: /mnt/dev/wd0s1f on /mnt/usr Invalid argument and a bit later another message just like the above except about a different filesystem (swap maybe?)... I suspect the problem is with the hard drive/controller, so here's more info on those: Disk: 1224 cylinders, 15 heads, (35,36) RLL sectors/track Supposedly with ESDI you set the CMOS bios to drive type 1 no matter what. The bios doesn't support user defined hard drive types, just a stock list (all less than 1024 cylinders, hum..). The controller bios (debug, g=c800:5) lets you set special options, either 17spt, 63spt, or no translation at all. I've tried all of these with exactly the same results. Just to check out the drive I installed DOS 5.0 on it, and it formats fine. I searched the mailinglist archives and couldn't find anything specific about this. I'm at a dead end on this one with a deadline to meet . Any ideas? Jay West (jlwest@tseinc.com) TSE