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From: jbrown@umi.com (Jim Brown)
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Subject: Re: Installation of NetBSD and FreeBSD on to SCSI failing (SUMMARY)
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 1994 08:30:59
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In article <31reef$bsa@nwfocus.wa.com> blood@chinook.halcyon.com (Eric Blood) writes:
>From: blood@chinook.halcyon.com (Eric Blood)
>Subject: Re: Installation of NetBSD and FreeBSD on to SCSI failing (SUMMARY)
>Date: 4 Aug 1994 19:10:07 GMT

>In article <jbrown.66.00092AFA@umi.com>, Jim Brown <jbrown@umi.com> wrote:
>>Hmmm... I have a 1542CF installed.  Let's see:
>>
>>I remember having this same problem when I tried to 'tune' the 1542CF for
>>different transfer rates, "Advanced configuration Options", etc. thinking
>>I could get better performance.  Not so.

>I tried messing with this and didn't get any results.

>>I then took all the default soft options for the card.  I am not using
>>the on-board floppy controller, so SW5 is toggled.  You must have either
>>an external terminator installed, or set 'Host Adapter SCSI Termination"
>>to Enabled.  BTW, your drive should also be terminated.  Check drive docs.

>Finally, I stripped out all the cards except video and SCSI.  I went
>over all the hard drive, cdrom, and tape jumper settings and 
>termination.  I checked over the SCSI card settings.  This is where I
>found the problem.  The termination on the SCSI host was set incorrectly,
>and when corrected, I was able to see the drive label (partitions).
>I was still getting the file system full errors.  So, I redid the boot
>and file system disks with rawrite and tried again.  FreeBSD was installed
>last night.

>However, NetBSD is still not booting.  It will cycle through the cmd
>fail and abort failed in wait errors when it goes through the initial
>device detection of the SCSI card.


One suggestion:  there are a couple of different raw boot floppies,
each having a subset of SCSI cards included.  The one I have for
NetBSD is 'ka-aha-09p1.fs'.  It supports the 1542CF.  I installed this 
some time ago, so there may be a later patch level I'm not aware of.
One site I know for downloading:  ftp.iastate.edu

The NetBSD core team is supposed to release NetBSD 1.0 within the next
few weeks.  There is a new Boot/Install routine that has been developed
but I don't know what it is.  Anyone else know?

>I just want to thank all those who offered suggestions.

Glad to be of help.

>--
>Eric V. Blood
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