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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.uio.no!nntp.zit.th-darmstadt.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help! "No hard drive" on install??!!?? Date: 27 Oct 1996 14:28:53 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 37 Message-ID: <54vrj5$pqf@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <01bbbfe2$7d51d650$27366d81@masscomp> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E "Ernest Hymel" <ehymel@utmb.edu> wrote: > sd1(ncr0:3:0):ABORTED COMMAND asc:4e,0 Overlapped commands attempted, > retries 4 > sd1(ncr0:3:0):ABORTED COMMAND asc:4e,0 Overlapped commands attempted, > retries 3 > ... etc. for retries 2, 1, Failure ... > sd1:error reading primary partition table reading fsbn0 (sd1 bn0; cn0 tn0 > sn0) > > The disk is an HP SureStore C3725S, 2 GB. Please explain what's going on!! The HP disk doesn't grok tagged command queuing. This is a known incompatibility, not only for FreeBSD. The ncr driver now has an option to disable tagged commands for a kernel compiled with FAILSAFE (all installation kernels are), but somehow, this option (accidentally) didn't make it into the 2.1.5 boot disk. Well, this looks like a chicken-and-egg problem now. You could use one of the 2.2-SNAP versions if you can live with their potential problems. You could install onto another disk (e.g. borrowed from elsewhere), compile a new kernel there with tagged command queuing disabled, and copy the entire contents to the HP drive. If all else fails, i'm willing to create a 2.1.5 bootfloppy with the change. However, take this as a last option, bootstrapping a 2.1.X system from 2.2-current is a little hard to do, it requires several hours of hand-fiddling on my side. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)