Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 19:36:21 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2 Beta Message-ID: <Mutt.19970103193621.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <57g20isrgp.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk>; from Paul Richards on Jan 3, 1997 15:34:14 %2B0000 References: <57g20isrgp.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk>
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As Paul Richards wrote: > The amd driver probes the scsi bus and finds the hard disk which is > listed as (this is all typed in by hand) > > (amd0:0:0): "COMPAQPC DPES-31080 S31K" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 > sd0(ams0:0:0): Direct-Access 0Mb (1 512 byte sectors) > sd0(ams0:0:0): with 0 cyls, 64 heads, and an average 32 sectors/track Can you try whether another SCSI controller would find the disk correctly under FreeBSD? Wrt. the AMD driver, it's probably best to talk to Stefan. > The probes then continue as expected until sysinstall starts, I get > the following message > > /stand/sysinstall running as init > > and then a completely blank screen. It's probing for the disk devices. Apparently, the SCSI controller or bus jams then. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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