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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!magic.cac.psu.edu!dn5 From: D. Jay Newman <dn5@psu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Help: ahb0 timeouts! Date: 22 Sep 1993 21:23:50 GMT Organization: Penn State Lines: 40 Distribution: world Message-ID: <27qfp6$ctb@genesis.ait.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: magic.cac.psu.edu X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d20 X-XXMessage-ID: <A8C63A1A72013BCA@magic.cac.psu.edu> X-XXDate: Wed, 22 Sep 93 17:21:30 GMT Hi: I'm trying to install NetBSD, and I got beyond the three floppies to a complete minimal system! I am now trying to ftp the binary distribution, and am starting to have major problems. I believe that I followed all the guidelines in the Install document. I was just about to get all of the base09 distribution (I was on file base09.060 or thereabouts) when I started seeing the message: ahb0 targ0: device timeout I saw this twice. Everything seemed to go ok for a bit, then things scrolled more rapidly than I could see. There was some synching going on, and that failed, so it rebooted itself. My system: Zenon EISA/VLB 486 50 MHz DX2 system Adaptec 1742a SCSI controller (in enhanced mode) 2 Maxtor 340 mb SCSI disks generic video stuff, mouse, keyboard sd0 was set up completely as a NetBSD disk; sd1 has been (for now) ignored, but will eventually also be a unix disk. I don't want DOS on my system. Everything seemed to go fine until base09.060 (or perhaps slightly before). I was putting the files into the /usr/distrib directory, so there should have been plenty of room. The root partition is also big enough (so far, of course). This really worries me, because I believe that ahb0 is the other designator for my boot disk, and I'd hate to believe that it is hosed this early in the game. If anybody can help me, I would be eternally grateful! ()()()()()()()()()()()()() ETS--Education Technology Services ()()()()() D. Jay Newman ! We were all born to live with magic, the dn5@psu.edu ! entire human race. We're never mor