I just got hold of an IBM Netfinity 5500 which I would like to install
Slackware on. I've tried installing several times, using the raid.s
kernel which supports the Serveraid controller.

However, each time, and after a different amount of time, the install
hangs. One time, when I watched the install and things slowed down to
almost a halt, dmesg told that there were some kind of dmaproblems
with hda1, which is the cdrom I installed from. Unfortunately I cannot
remember the exact message.

Does anybody know what causes this behaviour? I don't think it's faulty
hardware, since FreeBSD installs just fine on the computer. Could it
simply be because of a second idecontroller (currently without harddrives)
is installed in the machine, and the driver conflict with the one for the
inbuilt idecontroller which the cdrom is connected to?

Eivind E

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