From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 5 14:20:48 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA19460 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:20:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hpk.eng.morgan.edu (hpk.eng.morgan.edu [158.103.14.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA19453 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:20:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from whitney@eng.morgan.edu) From: whitney@eng.morgan.edu Received: from whitney0.eng.morgan.edu ([158.103.14.197]) by hpk.eng.morgan.edu with SMTP (8.7.1/8.7.1) id RAA11892 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 17:17:17 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990105172108.007ef880@eng.morgan.edu> X-Sender: whitney@eng.morgan.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 17:21:08 -0500 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 11:58:19 -0800 (PST) >From: Brett Neely >To: whitney@eng.morgan.edu >Subject: Re: your mail > > >Dear sir, > >The date on this product is June 1997. In the past eighteen months, >FreeBSD has gone through six more releases and many improvements, bug >fixes, optimizations, security fixes, enhancements, user interface fixes, >and hardware support fixes. I strongly suggest you obtain the latest >version (2.2.8) to ensure the best currently available FreeBSD system. > >However, if you still are seeking help with FreeBSD 2.2.2, you may send an >email to questions@freebsd.org for assistance. > >> Hello - >> >> I have FreeBSD 2.2.2 on CD Rom that I am just getting around to installing >> for the first time. I have a Gateway with an ASTORIA Mother board, a 333 >> MHZ Pentium II processor, 64 MB Ram, an ATI AGP video card, 1.44 Mb floppy, >> a 100 Mb Zip drive, two 9-Gb Seagate ST19101W SCSI hard drives, a Toshiba >> XM-6302B CD-Rom. >> >> >> I am currently trying to do the installation, booting off of floppy, which >> works ok. As it goes down through the sequence it gets to >> >> AHC0 REV1 int a irq10 on PCI 0:14 >> AHC0: AIC 7880 Wide Channel SCSI id=7, 16SCB's >> AHC0 waiting for SCSI devices to settle >> AHC0:0:0) Parity error during Message-out phase >> AHC0:Board is not responding >> >> The sequence then continues with >> SCB 0x0 through SCB 0xF with basically the same message after each SCB; >> i.e., 'Time out while recovery in progress' >> CMD Fail >> >> Then, the sequence gets stuck (or seems to get stuck; I waited for about >> 15-20 minutes) on 'Probing for devices on ISA bus' >> >> Please help. >> Thanks. >> >> Jim Whitney > > Brett Neely > Technical Support Staff > Walnut Creek CDROM > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message