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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 1.1R] Adapter frozen?
Date: 31 May 1994 04:55:30 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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In article <2s5nnc$eg1@mercury.mcs.com>, Nik <malenovi@MCS.COM> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have heard that 1.1 RELEASE has a problem booting off w/ Adaptec.

First I have heard of it. 

>I haven't had this problem w/ 1.0e&RELEASE, so while I'd like to upgrade to
>1.1 - I really can't cuz the boot disks simply won't boot :( they lock up.
>so here is what the setup is:

Are you using the 1.1 boot disks and they lock-up your machine?

>- adaptec 1542 w/ 3 SCSI disks - one is Maxtor (ID2), Quantum 210S (ID1)
>and Seqagate 237 (ID0). During the boot procedure I get "adapter not taking
>commands, frozen???" - regardless wether I put Quantum as ID 0, 1 or 2.

Obviously the Quantum can't go and ID 0 and 2 since the Maxtor and Seagate
are already at those adresses.

> I
>also tried recompiling the boot blocks for the hard disks and booting off
>the hard disk - but to no avail. the problem is obviously that there is some
>new code in 1.1 which locks w/ my Quantum 210s (which happens to be fairly
>old HD).

If you take the quantum out of the picture, does the machine boot?


Nate
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