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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!news.cic.net!locust.cic.net!pauls From: pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 install] Error Opening drive Date: 15 Sep 1994 13:39:38 GMT Organization: CICNet, Inc. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <359iqq$70l@spruce.cic.net> References: <1994Sep14.200053.1@carleton.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: locust.cic.net In article <1994Sep14.200053.1@carleton.edu>, <baconm@carleton.edu> wrote: >Hello. I have the floppies for FreeBSD, and I'm trying to install it onto a >Conner CFA540s SCSI drive above a dos partition, through a DTC 3270 controller. >I know this controller isn't supported, but I thought that it would be able to >access it anyway. I guess you just found out what "unsupported" really means. > When I get to the part of the installation where it asks for >the type of drive, I tell it SCSI, then it tells me it can't open it. Makes sense. It doesn't even know it's there. > I >usually proceed, giving it all the neccessary info, and then it can't find the >partition table. This disk does have more than 1024 cylenders (2803 data, to >be exact), so this might be causing the problem, along with the controller >problem. 1024+ cylinders is a problem for DOS, not for Unix. If you have done cylinder translation to fool DOS into thinking it has 1024 cylinders, then you will need to reformat and undo that. You need a supported SCSI controller. -- Paul Southworth CICNet Systems Support pauls@cic.net