On Sunday, September 1, 2002, at 10:21 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> I got a new, smaller and more spacious scsi disk for my Mac (Ultrastar 
> XP
> 7200 rmp 2gb) to replace the old full-size 5.25" incher I had. I begin 
> to
> install, decide to reinstall everything... BUT, damn! This idiotic 
> installer
> which gives always scsi read problems acts worse than ever: it doesn't 
> even
> create devices. I installed parts of the packages, but without devices I
> can't even boot and do the trick of finishing installation from within
> MacBSD.

The Installer is a MacOS application and it relies on MacOS for doing 
the disk I/O.  Generally problems like the one you're seeing are SCSI 
Bus termination issues (if there isn't some other problem with the disk 
itself).

If you are trying to install a 1.6_RC system or a -current snapshot you 
should try booting and Installation kernel and using the sysinst 
method.  It is _much_ faster and simpler.

-bob