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From: D. Jay Newman <dn5@psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Help: ahb0 timeouts!
Date: 22 Sep 1993 21:23:50 GMT
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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!
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