2.0 installation, again

[Kevin Damour]

In article <26741 at boulder.Colorado.EDU> andrea at boulder.Colorado.EDU (Boyd Hays) writes:

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   From: andrea at boulder.Colorado.EDU (Boyd Hays)
   Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
   Date: 22 Sep 90 03:50:15 GMT
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   Reply-To: andrea at tigger.colorado.edu (Boyd Hays)
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   Hello,
	   I'm trying to install A/UX 2.0 on a Quantum 170 MB and am receiving
   the following message during the installation process (the screen reads):

   Installing basic root files.
   Please wait, installation in progress
   Disk write c0d0s0 Error: SCSI timeout
   Logical block 98608, physical blocks 281728-281735

   Obviously, the installation stops at this point.

   The drive was just purchased from LaCie and was formatted, by them, with 
   Silverlining.  I've tried the installation four times each time with a 
   similar message, only the addresses change as I've tried different 
   configurations.  I'm using the maximum Mac partition option of Silverlining
   and have not modified any of its settings.  I ran the test & map out bad 
   sectors and the disk passes this test (I'd hope so LaCie says that they test 
   their drives prior to shipment).

   A potential problem area is where the installation asks what type of hard disk
   I'm using (page 4-9 of the installation instructions).  None of the drives
   seem to apply and I've been selecting #5, generic.

   I called LaCie and they told me that A/UX 2.0 installs are cookbook and they've
   never seen this problem referring me to Apple.  When I spoke with the Apple 
   technical support person I was informed that I would need to buy an A/UX 
   support license to get an answer to my question or call a dealer and ask for 
   help.

   The system's configuration is an original Mac II with PMU (A/UX 1.1 runs) with
   8MB of memory.

   Does anyone know what is wrong?

   Boyd Hays
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   I have the same configuration as above with a 110 MB drive from
LaCie (purchased over 1 year ago).  Installation on the 170 MB drive
produced the same SCSI timeout error messages followed by a series on
faults on writes to the drive.  I tried the installation on the 110 MB
drive, which was also formatted with SilverLining, and no errors were
produced.I called LaCie last week and will be returning the drive to
them this week for replacement.  Can there be a design error on the
170 MB drive to cause these errors (which are not on the 110 MB) ?

    Kevin Damour
    damour at ral.rpi.edu