Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 21:16:59 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Lucas <rlucas@solidcomputing.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Install problem Message-ID: <20010815210343.T11916-100000@mx2.threeh.com>
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I've been having a problem trying to install on a machine here. When it goes to open sysinstall it freezes at the probing devices screen. I think I've narrowed the problem down to the tape drive, which is an HP Colorado T4000S drive. The machine is an old Dell PowerEdge 2100. The rest of the hardware in it includes the onboard scsi, hard drive, cd-rom. I've added another scsi card in it which has another hard drive and the tape drive on it. When I disconnect the tape drive it doesn't freeze there. While trying to find the problem I had disconnected all devices going to the scsi card and installed, after the install I shutdown and connected it and booted back up. It booted fine but I couldn't run /stand/sysinstall as it froze while probing devices again. It was just that that froze though, I could still access the machine on a different terminal, but couldn't kill sysinstall even with kill -9. I didn't test the tape drive to see if it was working as I don't have a tape for it right now. It possibly could be bad but I'm hoping not. Does anyone have any experience with this particular drive or have any suggestions? -Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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