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Date:      Mon, 1 Apr 1996 10:59:26 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        fmtel <fmtel@MicroNet.fr>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Adaptec 7850 (cont'd-2nd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960401105733.1717A-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199604011605.SAA15087@logatome.micronet.fr>

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On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, fmtel wrote:

> Hello,
> I'am still trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 on my DIGITAL PRIORIS LX5120.
> There is an onboard PCI Fast/Narrow Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI-2 controller.
> Now the installation process hangs at the message "Writing partition
> information in drive sd0" !
> This problem may be similar to the previous one (my two previous messages),
> related to the cd-rom ... ?
> Could you tell me in which direction I can investigate ?

This sounds like your Adaptec is busted.  Hanging at the control-A is the 
Adaptec's BIOS stopping on something.  Did it do that before, with DOS 
for instance?  (The OS shouldn't do anything to the Adaptec)  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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