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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!admaix.sunydutchess.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!acsu.buffalo.edu!ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu!visnurpk From: rpk@niagara.edu (Richard P. Kernin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: SCSI, Barracuda and Adaptec problem Date: 27 Aug 1996 11:48 EST Organization: University at Buffalo Lines: 28 Sender: visnurpk@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (Richard P. Kernin) Distribution: world Message-ID: <27AUG199611483612@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.50AXP Hello, I'm trying to install FreeBSD v2.1.5 on a 2GB Seagate Barracuda disk (ST12550N) with an Adaptec 2842-VL SCSI controller, but to no avail. The system is a i486/80Mhz VLB system with 64MB of memory, and the above mentioned SCSI/disk combination. The error message I get from FreeBSD is "sd0: invalid partition, no magic", and am then allowed to go through all the setup, only to have the "commit" phase bomb with a kernel panic due to a "write error". Using the onboard SCSI utilities (SCSIselect) I'm able to see the disk, format and verify the disk, and FreeBSD finds it OK, but cannot install. In trying to re-install DOS on the system (it used to run DOS, then Netware for a couple of weeks while I was testing) I'm not able to access the disk anyone either. Help! anyone have any suggestions on this? I'm running FreeBSD v2.0 on a Barracuda 2GB for a couple of years w/o problem, but this one has me stumped. Thanks for any/all suggestions. Take care, -Rich -------------------------. .----------------------------. : Richard P. Kernin : rpk@niagara.edu : Niagara University : : Systems Analyst :<----------------->: Administrative Computing : `-------------------------' `----------------------------'