From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 8 14:03:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10148 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 14:03:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA10030 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 14:03:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA28229; Fri, 8 May 1998 14:03:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 14:03:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Robert Myers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BusLogic 946c Problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 May 1998, Robert Myers wrote: > I am having a bit of a problem installing FreeBSD 2.2.6 > > I have a 486 AMD 100, with 32 megs of ram, and a Buslogic 946c > controller BIOS revision 4.96F. > The IRQ on the PCI Slot is 11, and the IO address when I boot BSD and > configure the kernel is 330 > > I cannot seem to format the disk, an IBM model. > > I get random lockups when the newfs starts and not necassarily on the > root partition either....sometimes it locks up during the newfs for usr. Doug's Advice for SCSI Problems: 1. Check termination and cabling. 2. Check termination and cabling again. 3. Check termination and cabling one more time just to be sure it's correct. Are there any errors reported in the system log? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message