Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:28:04 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> To: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> Cc: "Kevin J. Menard, Jr." <kmenard@WPI.EDU>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2 install hanging Message-ID: <3A5F3094.6D2BDDA8@mail.iowna.com> References: <1261509784.20010111163125@wpi.edu> <004101c07c33$5cacaad0$6100000a@MARK8> <10434107518.20010112030407@wpi.edu> <007201c07cb2$a2e9fb40$6100000a@MARK8>
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Josh Paetzel wrote: > > I did notice that two of the lights on my 3ware card were still lit, > > but there was no drive activity. perhaps the drivers have not > > progressed as well as we would have liked? and i know that the drives > > work as I was running a mandrake-7.0 system (customized kernel) with > > the 4 port card. It just seems that it is very random when the > > install all of a sudden quits. I must've tried a good 30 times > > already. i could understand the ftp option stalling a bit (though i > > was pumping out at least 220K/s), but then recovering. I don't know > > how to explain the cd's failure. > > > > So anyone have any suggestions now? If it is indeed the RAID card, > > should I try to install to another HDD and then copy the data over to > > the RAID? But i'm wondering if i'm having such instability issues > > now, what i may face in the future :( > > > > I don't know if I have the definitive answer for this, but I will tell you > how I would proceed, and also give you the reasoning behind my suggestion. > > 1) I would attempt to install onto the same computer using the ftp site, but > instead of using the RAID controller I would use a standard SCSI adapter > that is known to be good under FreeBSD (perhaps the Adaptec 2940) > > 2) If no other SCSI controller is available, then I would try to install > onto the same computer with an IDE drive. > > Reasoning: I don't think that you are having an issue with the installation > medium, as you have tried two different ftp sites, and a cdrom. I don't > think you are having an issue with your NIC, as the cdrom install failed as > well. I have had a lot of trouble with FreeBSD and RAID controllers. I > haven't had all that much luck with SCSI adapters, either. The RAID adapter > is the first thing that I would suspect. Eliminating that from the picture > will at least tell you if it is the problem. I really have no idea what's wrong, but I do have a (somewhat) similar experience that I can share. I was trying to install 3.1 (when it was new) from CD or FTP onto a computer with an IDE drive. I was getting the same weird problems that you are and assumed that it was a bad IDE drive because it failed at a different place each time and the drive light stayed on. so I went out and bought a new IDE drive. The problem didn't change at all (after several more attempts) so I returned the drive and got a new motherboard. The new mobo with the original drive worked fine and was my system for 1.5 years until the HDD finally crapped out a few weeks ago. (It was used to begin with, and I used the hell out of it- I consider it a decent service life) That original mobo (that apparently caused the problem) is now long gone and I don't remember make/model/etc. I even used the RAM from the old one in the new one (still using it now) No answers, I know, but some more information for you. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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