Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 17:43:07 -0700 From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: bosankog@execpc.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI disk installation problem Message-ID: <199605170043.RAA28754@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 May 1996 18:03:55 MDT." <9605160120.AA0024@chiron.execpc.com>
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> I have a 1 gig IDE dedicated to OS/2. I recently added an Adaptec > 1542 controller and a 1.3 gig Quantum drive and wanted to dedicate > this to UNIX. The installer correctly identified the two disks. > When I selected the scsi drive, freebsd FDISK cam up just fine, but > it seemed unable to read the partition table, as no drive > information was displayed. Also, it seemed unaware that the disk > parameters were not displayed. When I executed a command, the > system crashed. That's not nice. :-( Was the disk totally blank? You might try putting a small DOS partition on the Quantum and installing FreeBSD over it (remove it in FDISK). That seems to be the solve-all of disk problems. :-) See if you can catch the boot messages scrolling by and make sure your Quantum is being probed properly. 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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