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From: jeg@condor.circa.ufl.edu
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Subject: boot floppy hangs if IDE ZIP Drive present
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>Number:         4013
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       boot floppy hangs if IDE ZIP Drive present
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jul  2 06:40:04 PDT 1997
>Closed-Date:    Fri Jan 21 10:08:42 PST 2000
>Last-Modified:  Fri Jan 21 10:10:07 PST 2000
>Originator:     John Gelnaw
>Release:        2.2.2-RELEASE
>Organization:
CIRCA, University of Florida
>Environment:
unable to produce.  See description.
>Description:
When installing FreeBSD for the first time from floppy, after visual
configuration is finished, devices are probed.  After second IDE
controller is found, screen clears, and stops with a block-shaped 
cursor in bottom left.  2nd screen shows various failed CD-ROM probes.
(cd0, scd0, matcd0)

Installation will not continue from this point.

Did an identical installation with IDE Zip drive disconnected, and the
install program ran perfectly.  Once FreeBSD is installed to the hard
drive, it will boot with IDE Zip drive connected.
>How-To-Repeat:
Install with IDE Zip drive.  :)
>Fix:
Remove IDE Zip drive until installation complete.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Ted Schundler <teds@edgemedia.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, jeg@condor.circa.ufl.edu
Cc:  Subject: Re: misc/4013: boot floppy hangs if IDE ZIP Drive present
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 16:26:25 -0500

 That seems to be true, but there's more to the problem than that. I also
 using FreeBSD 2.2.2 had that problem. I have an ATAPI CD-ROM drive as well
 on the second IDE controller, and with the ZIP drive connected, I can't
 mount the cd-rom or play CDs. And attempt at mounting the CD causes the
 computer to freeze up. And I can't mount the zip disk either. To use the
 CD-ROM I have to shut down, disconnect the zip drive, and reboot. And since
 I use the ZIP in Windows, when I want to that I then have to go inside and
 reconnect the cable. Workable, but annoying.
 
 
 Ted Schundler
 Chief Technical Officer
 EdgeMedia Networks
 
 www.edgemedia.net
 digital media before its time (TM)
 

From: Jeff Strickland <PurpleWarrior@cyberjunkie.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, jeg@condor.circa.ufl.edu
Cc:  Subject: Re: misc/4013: boot floppy hangs if IDE ZIP Drive present
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 15:19:42 -0500

 Also having the same problem, but even when I unhook the zip and Jaz
 drives from their external ports, the installation still stops after the
 probing.  The only difference being that my HDD is IDE and the CD-Roms
 are both SCSI-2.  The SCSI adapter is a PELogic (emulated correctly by
 the AIC-63xx driver).  It finds the HDD, and the CD-Roms and the size of
 the CD's in the drives, but won't go to the install.  I've tried only
 placing one CDRom drive on the card, but I get the same result.  I've
 checked the termination, and it's OK.  Was able to get a minimal install
 off a DOS partition, but only with everything disconnected.
 
 As a side note, the installation goes OK if the SCSI card is plugged in
 with no devices attached, but if anything is attached to it, problem
 occurs.  Also, after installation, it boots OK with everything attached,
 but it hangs when I try to enter the /stand/sysinstall program, just
 like the installation.
 
 Jeff Strickland
 jtstric1@ua1vm.ua.edu

From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@freebsd.org>
To: FreeBSD Gnats <freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org>
Cc: John Gelnaw <jeg@condor.circa.ufl.edu>
Subject: Re: misc/4013: boot floppy hangs if IDE ZIP Drive present
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:55:26 +0100

 Hi,
 
 can you verify if this is still a problem with say a 3.3 or 3.4 bootset
 of diskettes?
 
 There have been tremendous changes to the internal infrastructure
 within FreeBSD that will probably have cleared up your problem.
 
 Thanks for you co-operation.
 
 -- 
 Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai           asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl]
 Documentation nutter.          *BSD: Technical excellence at its best...  
 The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>
 Another morning, black sunday, coming down again...
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: asmodai 
State-Changed-When: Fri Jan 21 10:08:42 PST 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Originator was so kind to test a 3.4 bootset and confirmed that 
the problem is not present anymore for him. 

Thanks! 
>Unformatted:
