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From: lirwin@admin1101dp.ucr.edu (Loren Irwin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1.0 SCSI problem
Date: 27 Aug 1994 04:49:19 GMT
Organization: University of California, Riverside
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Giuseppe Vitillaro (peppe@ipgaix.unipg.it) wrote:
: I'm facing a problem with FreeBSD 1.1
: and a 1542CF controller.

: The Adaptec controller has an internal
: Disk and an external CD, connected with
: a terminated cable.

: After some activity on the CD, if I try
: to recompile the system (intense disk
: activity) it seems that the system get
: wrong charactes from files and the "make depend"
: or the compilation fail in random points.

. . .

I'm not sure about the CF, but the 1542C is very
picky about external cables.  I was having problems
with an external harddrive.  So I called adaptec
tech support, and they sent me a scsi cable free.
This fixed the problem.

good luck

Loren Irwin
lirwin@admin1101dp.ucr.edu