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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.mtu.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!marie.physik.tu-berlin.DE!not-for-mail From: jan@marie.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Jan Riedinger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help: SCSI adapter not taking commands, frozen! problem. Date: 23 Feb 96 20:00:40 GMT Lines: 17 Message-ID: <jan.825105640@marie.physik.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <311B020A.41C6@epa001.enet.dec.com> <4gb1ct$d34@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (130.149.40.96) X-Access: 16 915 X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #7 (NOV) Francis Hitchens <hitchens@epa001.enet.dec.com> writes: > I have been trying to install 2.1 from the Walnut Creek CD onto a > IBM DPES 31080 SCSI II disk hanging on an adaptec 1542 card. The disk > has an initial msdog partition of 500mb with the remaining space being > split up into 3 bsd slices, 30mb root, 30mb swap, rest /usr. > "sd0(aha0:0:0:) adapter not taking commands. frozen!" > Is my problem something to do with the adaptec bios disc geometry > (< 1gb) being different to the actual geometry (> 1gb) ? I friend of mine had the same problem with this hard disk. He solved it by using new firmware for the adaptec controller. Jan