Hardware Compatibility

[Michael Giegerich]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 10:54:30AM -0500, Akshay Sura wrote:
> I have a IBM PC Server 325 and I am trying to install FREEBSD 4.7/4.8
> and 5.1 and it gives a message "Wait 15 seconds for > SCSI devices to
> settle" and after that it gets stuck. Please help me resolve this issue.

That's from another article:

|From ijack at wiley.co.uk Mon Sep 22 22:24:23 CEST 2003
...
|In the Configuration Options for the PC325 (F1 whilst booting) there
|is an option "Virtual Wire I/O APIC Mode" in the "Start Options". The
|default value for this is "Enabled". Change this to "Disabled" and the
|installation should proceed past the "SCSI Devices" point. This worked
|on my PC325.

This worked on my PC Server 330 too.

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