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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.5 install: Fixed
Date: 3 Oct 1996 16:06:56 GMT
Organization: Coverform Ltd.
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In article <52r5d9$bfi@amdint2.amd.com>,
mikenix@bianca.amd.com (Michael Nix) writes:
> I got the CD-ROM installation to work by changing the location
> of the SCSI controller on the mother-board. The 2940 came from
> the store in location 'pci014' (Third from the top). When I
> moved it to location 'pci012' (Top slot), all my CRC errors,
> checksum errors, and premature end-of-file errors went away.
Sounds like it wasn't seated properly !
> Another thing that I noticed about my hardware as it was delivered
> to me is that both hard-drives had the terminator-enable jumper in
> place. The CD-ROM drive had termination-resitors installed also.
> Since the CD-ROM drive was last on the cable, it should be the
> only device with termination, so I disabled the termination on
> both hard-drives.
>
> By the way; the original harware configuration never gave me
> any trouble in any DOS applications.
DOS is more clueless than anything else I know !
> I hope that this is of some help to those that are tring to
> install FreeBSD and keep getting read-errors.
Yep - goes to show, the people that built your machine are clueless !
ALWAYS assume everyone else is a fool until proven otherwise, but more
importantly, ALWAYS assume that you're a fool too ! ;{) It works for
me ;)
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....