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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!cacd.rockwell.com!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!warwick!yama.mcc.ac.uk!viking.ucsalf.ac.uk!mark From: mark@ucsalf.ac.uk (Mark Powell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Install problem with Adaptec AHA-2940 Date: 14 Feb 1996 11:48:01 GMT Organization: Computer Services Unit, University College Salford, Salford, UK Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4fsi5h$afj@viking.ucsalf.ac.uk> References: <DM4sqD.1oy@ml.csiro.au> <4fe4ks$pm3@lscruz.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: scot1.ucsalf.ac.uk In article <4fe4ks$pm3@lscruz.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com>, Alan Strassberg <alan@lscruz.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com> wrote: >In article <DM4sqD.1oy@ml.csiro.au>, Peter Billam <pjb@ml.csiro.au> wrote: > >> WARNING ! Unable to swap to /dev/sd0s1b: Device not configured. >> >>and then >> >> Unable to make new root file system on /dev/rsd0a ! >> Command returned status 1 > > Check to see /dev/[rs]d0* are really there! I've had exactly the same problem just yesterday. I made a post regarding it: Subject: SCSI problems performing writes to FAST SCSI-2 drives Sometimes the machine would produce some SCSI command error writing the partition table. Others it would get past that stage and give the errors you outline above. It really looks as though there is some problem with FreeBSD as Linux Slackware v3.0.0 installs fine on the same hardware. I tried a 1542C and a AHA2940 on two machines, both with the same problems with FAST SCSI-2 drives, but no problems at all under Linux. > alan -- Mark Powell - Senior Network Technician - Room: C806 Computer Services Unit, University College Salford, Salford, UK. Tel: +44 161 745 3376 Fax: +44 161 736 3596 Email: mark@ucsalf.ac.uk finger mark@ucsalf.ac.uk (for PGP key)