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From: jan@marie.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Jan Riedinger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help: SCSI adapter not taking commands, frozen! problem.
Date: 23 Feb 96 20:00:40 GMT
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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) ?

I friend of mine had the same problem with this hard disk. He solved it by
using new firmware for the adaptec controller.

   Jan