home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Path: sparky!uunet!darwin.sura.net!mips!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!nsisrv!jagubox!jim
- From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Subject: Re: IIfx hangs while installing A/UX 3.0
- Message-ID: <862@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Sender: usenet@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Usenet)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov
- Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
- References: <Bs0xnM.7qs@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:28:27 GMT
- Lines: 44
-
- yaosenko@acsu.buffalo.edu (Yaosen Ko) writes:
-
- >Just got A/UX 3.0 upgrade kit and about to install it in no time!
-
- >Perhaps I just find out a vulnerable point of installing A/UX 3.0
- >on IIfx.
-
- >There are three steps in installing A/UX 3.0: setting up disk with
- >HD Setup, installing A/UX Startup on MacOS partition, and
- >installing A/UX proper on the Root & Usr partition.
-
- >The first two steps went smoothly. When it came to the last step, and
- >while the installing program showed "Please wait... Calculating UNIX
- >filesystem space requirement", the machine hang. It is highly
- >reproducible. Adjusting the arrangement of SCSI devices helps a bit
- >but it still happens in about 10% of the time.
-
- >Does anybody care to comment on this? Yet another SCSI DMA "feature"
- >of IIfx? Anybody from Apple would like to say anything so we can
- >have an insight? (hint... hint...)
-
- Well, the IIfx is quite finicky about termination, cable length, etc...
-
- I would hazard a guess that maybe:
-
- 1. You aren't using the IIfx TerminatorII
-
- 2. You have an "el cheapo" SCSI cable.
-
- 3. It's possible that you have > 2 terminators on the bus...
-
- Early beta versions had some problems installing on IIfx's but they have been,
- as far as I know, worked out.
-
- Good Luck!
- --
- ==============================================================================
- #include <std/disclaimer.h>
-
- Jim Jagielski NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4
- jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov Greenbelt, MD 20771
-
- "The great scallop... this tatty, scrofulous old rapist,
- is second in depravity only to the common clam."
-