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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!msc.edu!network.com!habari!backstr From: backstr@barbarian (Bill Backstrom) Subject: Re: BusLogic BT-946C Rev D & Conner CFP1080S? In-Reply-To: James William Babin's message of Tue, 26 Sep 1995 23:18:32 -0500 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: barbarian Message-ID: <BACKSTR.95Oct3080809@barbarian> Sender: news@network.com Organization: Network Systems Corporation References: <Pine.A32.3.91.950926230144.34714A-100000@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu> Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 13:08:09 GMT Lines: 51 In article <Pine.A32.3.91.950926230144.34714A-100000@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu> James William Babin <jbabin1@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu> writes: Path: network.com!News.Minn.Net!news3.net99.net!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!willis.cis.uab.edu!news.lsu.edu!unix1.sncc.lsu.edu!unix1.sncc.lsu.edu!jbabin1 From: James William Babin <jbabin1@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 23:18:32 -0500 Organization: Louisiana State University Lines: 7 NNTP-Posting-Host: unix1.sncc.lsu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have a new system on order & I hope to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 on it. The system has a BusLogic BT-946C Rev. D PCI SCSI Controller, a Conner CFP1080S SCSI HD, & a Plextor 6PleX SCSI CD Drive. Has anyone here used any of these components successfully (or not) with FreeBSD? Any cautions, or other experience you can offer is appreciated. James, I just received a Micron Millenia with the same controller and hard disk. I've had no real problems installing or running 2.0.5 so far. As shipped by Micron, the Buslogic controller has translation support for drives greater than 1GB enabled. The Buslogic docs indicated that this should be disabled for OS's like UNIX, OS/2, etc. So I disabled it, ran FDISK to partition the disk in two and reinstalled W95 and FreeBSD. Everything seems to work fine. The only problem I've run into is when I shutdown FreeBSD. After doing a shutdown and umount -av, if I do a 'fsck -p' I get an error message starting something like bt:(0,0,0)... repeated several times (I don't have the exact message 'cause I was planning on investigating a little more before looking for help, but if anyone has a suggestion, I'd be grateful). If I do a 'sync' after that I get the same message. If I skip the fsck, I can sync and reboot just fine. I installed FreeBSD by itself on a quantum LP525S, and can shutdown and fsck just fine, so I don't know if the problem is due to the Conner, or the partitioning. BTW, I get the same error if I leave the >1GB translation enabled. Hope this helps. Bill --- Bill Backstrom Network Systems Corporation backstr@anubis.network.com 7600 Boone Avenue North (612) 391-1125 Minneapolis MN 55428 James