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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in2.uu.net!199.94.215.18!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.pbi.net!nntp.mainstreet.net!ns2.mainstreet.net!newsfeeder.netgate.net!usenet From: dunc@netcom.com (Kevet Duncombe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: aic timed out Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 08:11:27 GMT Organization: NetGate Communications Lines: 23 Message-ID: <32e8654e.44304544@204.145.147.54> NNTP-Posting-Host: d57.netgate.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34458 I'm trying to install 2.1.5 on my old 486/66. It has an ISA Adaptec 1520 that works fine, albeit slowly, with Dos and NT. I booted -c from floppy, removed all the conflicts, checked that aic0 was set to port 340 and irq 11, same as the driver reports during a DOS boot, and let it go. It grinds along for a while, probing this and that, and eventually eventually reports finding and aic0 at 340 and irq 11. A minute or so later it reports discovering sd0(aic0:0:0). Then it sits for 90 seconds and says: (aic0:4:0): timed out This pattern of a 90 second pause followed by a message goes on for a total of six complaints about (aic0:4:0); at which point it moves on to complaining about (aic0:5:0), and finally (aic0:6:0). After 18 complaints and nearly half an hour, I get a screen that's blank, but for the block cursor in the lower left corner. It persists for several minutes. Eventually the install screen appears, whereupon the partition editor tells me I have no hard disks. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Any clues gratefully appreciated. --dunc