Hi,

Well, I have thought of the problems you mentioned (cabling/termination,
etc). However, I used to have FreeBSD installed on the system, and FreeBSD
doesn't seem to have any problem with my DPT SCSI adapter.

Furthermore, I can initialize the drive, but I couldn't copy files on to it.
Therefore my troubles...

Thanks.

Lucas.

> Segfault <segfault@iname.com> wrote:
> 
>> Finally, I *could* install NetBSD on my PC--since I only have SCSI drives
>> that are connected to a DPT PM2024 SCSI card.
> 
> I have a similar SmartCache III (ISA model) that works great.
> 
>> At the point when NetBSD is trying to copy the packages on to the drive, I'd
>> get a ton of "illegal instruction" errors for the target hard drive, which
>> after a few minutes of attempts, would end up with a reset of the SCSI card
>> and eventual reboot (unsuccessfully).
>> 
>> Since I have a total of 3 hard drives on the system, I tried on different
>> drives to see whether this was a hardware problem. But apparantly, this
>> problem occurs on ALL drives.
> 
> It does sound like a hardware problem. I'd guess that there's a problem with
> the cabling/termination on the SCSI bus. It could also be a dud SCSI adapter.
> 
> I don't know how much you know about SCSI, but I can suggest taking a look
> at the owner's handbook or DPT's site for some useful info.
>