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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.hana.nm.kr!jagalchi.cc.pusan.ac.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.jsums.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-jena.de!news.HRZ.HAB-Weimar.DE!News.HTWM.De!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help: SCSI adapter not taking commands, frozen! problem. Date: 19 Feb 1996 23:33:49 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4gb1ct$d34@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <311B020A.41C6@epa001.enet.dec.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 Francis Hitchens <hitchens@epa001.enet.dec.com> writes: > I have been trying to install 2.1 from the Walnut Creek CD onto a > IBM DPES 31080 SCSI II disk hanging on an adaptec 1542 card. The disk > has an initial msdog partition of 500mb with the remaining space being > split up into 3 bsd slices, 30mb root, 30mb swap, rest /usr. > "sd0(aha0:0:0:) adapter not taking commands. frozen!" > Is my problem something to do with the adaptec bios disc geometry > (< 1gb) being different to the actual geometry (> 1gb) ? Nope, this is nothing with geometry. Looks like very low-level SCSI. Perhaps the data rate for your drive is too high. I've also heard that some IBM OEM disks don't like it if their case is grounded; you have to mount them isolated. Are you sure the disk is okay at all? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)