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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!basser.cs.su.oz.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!pirates!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!concert!unccsun.uncc.edu!jlrobins From: jlrobins@unccsun.uncc.edu (James Lee Robinson) Subject: Timeout errors durring installation of FreeBSD 1.0.2 Message-ID: <CLHJAM.IK9@unccsun.uncc.edu> Summary: Help needed in installation Sender: jlrobins@uncc.edu (James Robinson) Organization: University of NC at Charlotte Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 18:56:46 GMT Lines: 61 Machine: Drive: Maxtor 7345S (SCSI) w/"Terminator Power" jumper enabled Manual says 2,219 Cyl; 4 heads; 2 Disks; 'ZBR' sec/track 64K onboard cache PFDISK says: 329 cyl; 64 heads; 32 sec Connected w/2-ended ribbon cable CD: External Texel w/expensive SCSIII cable w/term DIP on Host Adaptor: Adaptec 1742 [extended mode: irq 11] Mboard: NICE Super EISA/VLB Problem: While trying to install FreeBSD from the Walnut Creek CD, I am getting device timeouts on both SCSI devices ID:6 (hard drive) and ID:2 CD. When the floppy boots, the only pertinant/incriminating things it says durring probing is: ahb0 int 11 ..... aha0 not probed due to conflict with int 11 Everything seems to go ok until it got to the point where it was copying the binaries to the disk (as shown through verbose install). It got to /usr/bin/egrep, and then said something similar to: ahb0:2 Device Timeout ahb0:6 Device Timeout Then comes an: abh0: Unexpected ASN int 22 (Having just checked with the EISA config util, nothing should be using 22) After those messages, tar complains, something core dumps, and then a nasty cycle of timeouts on both devices. Also, before the above happened, I remember seeing a cd0: Medium Error, but this did not seem to affect the setup. So, what's the deal here? I have little experience with setting up this hardware (new machine), so I would not be surprised if I have done something wrong. Tell me about "terminating the SCSI bus". The only manual that came with the AHA was a software manual that said that the bus must be terminated. NOWHERE does it describe what this means. Ditto for the Maxtor instr. This leads me to think that my problem is a termination problem. I would greatly appreciate _any_ feedback. I won't complain upon recieving the countless " clueless idiot shouldn't have that hardware if they don't know how to set it up", as long as they tell me how to fix it inbetween the flagrant cursing. Thank You! (as you can see, the .sig is still a bit of fiction, as I've not actually seen XFree/FreeBSD running!) -- // James Robinson ::: University of North Carolina at Charlotte \\ // jlrobins@uncc.edu: Senior, BS Computer Science, Math Minor (Fun!) \\ // FreeBSD/XFree86 :: The best things in life are Free! \\ Frank Zappa : "There's a big difference in bending down and kneeling over."