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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!news.cac.psu.edu!magic.cac.psu.edu!dn5 From: D. Jay Newman <dn5@psu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Help with Adaptec 1742a installation, please! Date: 25 Sep 1993 16:30:15 GMT Organization: Penn State Lines: 51 Distribution: world Message-ID: <281rmn$tq0@genesis.ait.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: magic.cac.psu.edu X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d20 X-XXMessage-ID: <A8C9E9CABE013BCA@magic.cac.psu.edu> X-XXDate: Sat, 25 Sep 93 12:27:54 GMT Please help me! I am trying to install Net-BSD on my system, and I keep having "sd0 timeout" and some "ahb0 device timeout" errors. This is very frustrating, as I have not gotten it completely installed yet (though I have come close three times)!. This seems to be an intermittent problem, because it doesn't always show up at the same time (sometimes I get the floppy installs finished, sometimes not). I would like to get in touch with somebody who has experience with the Adaptec 1742a, just to see if my settings are right. I'd also be grateful for any other suggestions. I'd also like to know the real geometry of the Maxtor 7345sr drive (I have a couple of contradictory sources, and I'd like to hear from anybody who is currently using the drive). Things I've done so far include: 1. Remove the terminator from my first scsi drive (the people I bought it from left both in there, and it worked perfectly with DOS and Windows). 2. Got a new SCSI cable. Made up in the local computer shop. This was at Adaptec's suggestion. 3. Installed several times with different geometries. 4. Effectively removed each disk from consideration: the problem occurs no matter which disk was removed. The system: Zenon EISA/VLB system 50 MHz DX2 8 meg RAM Video Board with Cirrus Logic chipset 2 Maxtor 7345sr scsi disks This system seemed to work fine under DOS, but not under Net-BSD. I am at my wit's end (not that I had far to go in the first place), and need all the help I can get. Thanks in advance. ()()()()()()()()()()()()() ETS--Education Technology Services ()()()()() D. Jay Newman ! We were all born to live with magic, the dn5@psu.edu ! entire human race. We're never mor