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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!news.ecn.bgu.edu!newspump.wustl.edu!newsreader.wustl.edu!usenet From: Matt Rosenberg <mar7@cec.wustl.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Adaptec 2742W and Seagate 43xxxxN Date: 7 Aug 1995 21:46:16 GMT Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4061j8$85r@newsreader.wustl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: @dialin-39.wustl.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2b4 (Windows; I; 32bit) HELP!!!!! I have installed FreeBSD 2.0.5 on three separate systems using 3 different installation methods and never had a problem. They were all, however, to IDE or EIDE HDD's. Now I'm trying to install it on a system with only SCSI drives and hit a brick wall. The system has an Adaptec 2742W EISA SCSI adaptor and a Seagate 43xxxxN HDD (3GB). The system works fine in DOS and I've run it through a very vigorous battery of diagnostics in DOS and it's passed with flying colors. When I try to install FreeBSD and get to the partitioning section of the install menu, it says I don't have any HDD's. During a manual config during boot, the system correctly probed the ahc1 device and found the correct information. During bootup it says it has found a device sd0, but it incorrectly reads it as 6GB. (It flies by too fast to read the exact geometry if it does in fact show it.) On ttyv1 I get the following error message: >ioctl (3,TIOCCONS, NULL)=0 (success) sd0: error reading >primary partition table reading fsbn 0 (sd0 bn0; cn0 tn0 sn0) Physcially the disk has about 2600 cylinders, but under DOS the BIOS (Award) supported LBA shows the following geometry: 354 cylinders, 255 sides, and 63 sectors per track I would very much appreciate help as soon as possible. Thank you. ============================================= Matt Rosenberg Washington University School of Law St. Louis, MO, USA mar7@cec.wustl.edu ; rosenbem@wulaw.wustl.edu http://www.cec.wustl.edu/~mar7/ =============================================