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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news3.digex.net!digex.net!not-for-mail From: dcmyers@access4.digex.net (David Myers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Fatal installation errors Date: 8 Jan 1996 20:27:29 -0500 Organization: Express Access Online Communications USA: 800-969-9090 Lines: 42 Message-ID: <4csga1$jhf@access4.digex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: access4.digex.net After deciding that my NCR810-based SCSI card was simply incompatible with my PnP BIOS, I chucked it and picked up an Adaptec 2940. After a much more promising boot from floppy, I began the installation process. SCSI device 0 is a 1 gig Quantum Fireball drive; SCSI 4 is my NEC CDROM. The Quantum was formatted with 100MB for DOS and 940 for FreeBSD. The installation begins fine, but about 20% - 30% of the way into it, it quits, saying: Write failure on transfer (-1 of 10240 bytes transferred) Thanks to previous correspondence with people in this group, I have some suspicion that my CDROM is not a good SCSI citizen, and may be causing problems on the bus. I already had to disable SCSI parity checking in the Adaptec BIOS, because the NEC doesn't support it. However, I thought I would post this to the group, and see if anyone else has had similar experiences. Can anybody give me a clue as to what might be going on? As an experiment, I then tried using the IDE CDROM boot floppy option. This actually proceeds quite a bit further, but at a random point will fail with the message: kernel panic: page fault Don't know if that information helps any. I would appreciate any suggestions from the group. -David. -- ________________________________________ David C. Myers dcmyers@access.digex.net